From "financially backed"...
... to "lightningally baked"
Microsoft UK has vowed to provide BPOS customers with vouchers against future credits following seven hours of downtime at the weekend. This is the latest in a series of embarrassing cloud outages for Redmond after a summer of interruptions began in May, but differs from other incidents in that an "Act of God" was responsible …
So lack of proper datacentre design is an act of God now is it?
It's completely obvious that Microsoft have no clue when it comes to behaving in a Datacentre - not just their products but their "service" offerings to.
Diverse power is a must for a business-critical system and they can't even get a basic thing like that right.
"The SLA does not apply when the service is hit by availability issues arising from "factors outside of our control" – one of the criteria."
Unless I have misunderstood the article this was (I quote) an "act of God" situation which got to be a factor outside of the control of Redmond. They have all the same paid compensation, haven't they? Or have I really misunderstood this report?
@Anonymous Coward - proper data center. MSFT claim in press and promotion material that the Dublin Data Center is a N+1 redundant *facility*, meaning an act of god is not a plausible explanation. In those terms, service should continue without the need for that data-center through co-lo or other redundant means.
Your comments on 'short trousers' data denter management are right on - I worked for the company for a few years and I can confirm to you that they have no concept of enterprise-grade computing and facilities management. When you think that major banks fail data centers over to each other as BAU, Microsoft are a country mile from providing even basic availability in DR situations.
My opinion? If you want high street service ~no thanks~ then use a high street mentality provider. If you want bespoke, reliable service, hire someone who knows what they are talking about.
:-<
They said that last time there was a disruption for over a week and an all out outage for 3 days.
We received a credit for 3 days of that month's invoice and nothing else.
This time around, it'll probably be 25% credit on the 2 days of the months the service was out...
Pennies....
Microsoft likes to play on words.
fkers