Collaborate Disseminate
Microsoft Teams, the collaboration platform that competes with Slack, has been down since about 8:30 am ET. Microsoft reports the outage was due to an expired certificate. Microsoft first posted that an outage was in progress on its Office 365 Status Twitter feed about 9:00 am ET, stating the company was looking into the problem. […] Continue reading Microsoft Teams has been down this morning
Cloud security and cloud outages are real threats to companies that don’t plan accordingly For many companies, cloud service providers offer a good deal. You get unlimited computing power, storage space, access to advanced services and platforms… Continue reading The Cloud, Outages and You: Who’s Responsible for What?
A question none of us like to think about too much is what we would do if a natural or man-made disaster took out Office 365 and disrupted service for an extended period. The good news is that the way Microsoft has built out Office 365 into datacenter regions helps to limit the effect of any outage, but the fact still remains that something bad could happen. What would you do then?
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As IP networks continue to grow and become ever more complex, and people become ever more dependent on them staying up all the time, a startup that is building software tools to help administrators keep networks running has landed a round of funding. Forward Networks — a startup that only emerged from stealth last November and has built a platform aimed at service providers and… Read More Continue reading Forward Networks nets $16M to help prevent network outages
If you lived through the Y2K fiasco, you might remember a lot of hype with almost zero real-world ramifications in the end. As the calendar year flipped from 1999 to 2000 many forecast disastrous software bugs in machines controlling our banking and infrastructure. While this potential disaster didn’t quite live up to its expectations there was another major infrastructure problem, resulting in many blackouts in North America, that reared its head shortly after the new millennium began. While it may have seemed like Y2K was finally coming to fruition based on the amount of chaos that was caused, the actual …read more
By now you’ve probably heard that Amazon’s S3 storage service went down in its Northern Virginia datacenter for the better part of 4 hours yesterday, and took parts of a bunch of prominent websites and services with it. It’s worth noting that as of this morning, the Amazon dashboard was showing everything was operating normally. While yesterday’s outage was a big deal… Read More Continue reading The day Amazon S3 storage stood still
Did you know you can use an old school method for tracking the status of Microsoft Azure cloud services?
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Google’s engineering VP offers a post-mortem analysis of Monday night’s outage. Continue reading For Google’s Cloud, 18 Minutes of Downtime Is an Eternity
