Google Drive Goes Down, Halting Productivity for Many Users

Drive, the cloud-based service that encompasses a number of office programs (such as Google Docs), is experiencing severe issues this morning.

It is unclear how many users are affected, but Benzinga employees have been unable to access some of their files today. Many users have turned to Twitter to complain about the unexpected outage. "Google Drive is down at the precise moment that I need a critical piece of business information stored there," Mike Dudas, a former Google employee,

today. "Happens far too often." "Google Drive just teasing me now, showing me my documents but not letting me actually open them," Tom Krazit, news editor at GigaOM,

as well.