Rather than a cloud platform maybe they should call it a slut platform given how often it goes down on you.
Microsoft Azure goes titsup across Western Europe
Microsoft Azure is having an up-and-down kind of day as the cloud platform struggles to get any work done. The services' dashboard reported that hosted services in Western Europe were hit, and said that Microsoft was "actively investigating the issue" at 12.09 BST. Two hours later, the status page said the firm was still …
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Thursday 26th July 2012 19:05 GMT William Hinshaw
Another clear demostration of why we can't "go to the cloud"
Can you imagine 4000+ people not being able to do the majority of their work because the "cloud" was down for two hours? The cloud is basically a "MAINFRAME" people and shouldn't ever be down except on a weekend for planned maintenance once in a blue moon at most. Two hours of unscheduled down time simply is NEVER acceptable for an enterprise. Two hours for some businesses is millions of dollars lost. If M$ wants to make a serious play for the enterprise or businesses of any size for that matter they need 100% reliability and if any down time is required EVER (and should ever be needed for the a Cloud Mainframe) there should be at least a month lead time and on a weekend that has a holiday like New Years to assure minimal impact on businesses.
If Azure could be made as reliable as the Mainframe days of old M$ could rake in the CASH big time and unshackle its self from depending on the success of Windows cause I think everyone can see that Windows 8 isn't going to be accepted by the enterprise masses with open arms.
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Friday 27th July 2012 01:49 GMT P. Lee
Re: Another clear demostration of why we can't "go to the cloud"
A mainframe has lots of engineering in it.
"The Cloud" tends to be a bunch of pc's.
Mainframes are built for predictability and reliability over everything else.
The Cloud is about features, new, improved (& untested).
You get what you pay for.
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Sunday 29th July 2012 23:08 GMT Fatman
Re: The "CLOUD" = One or More Boxes Hosted by Someone Else
As long as my current boss is CIO; we will not even remotely consider the cloud. But, it never fails, some wet behind the ears wanna-be PHB gets the 'cloud notion'.
Which usually means that IT must disabuse this ID10T of that notion. Quickly. Firmly. Without mercy. If you think you can come into a `C` level conference, and bamboozle the CEO with bullshit about the cloud; you will get a serious `schooling` from IT.
These incidents are just more fodder in an ever growing folder of `cloudbursts`, and used to send those PHB's running out of the executive conference room in tears. Poor, newly minted PHB's going up against people who have been in IT for 15, 20, or even more years. They don't stand a chance.
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