Cloud services

[Hans Manhave]

Are you using Office 365 or just Outlook.com?

(I manually split the topic from Crashplan).

I have been using a hotmail.com address for ages.  I have not used Office365.  Noticed that it was not working picking up all the mail with the iPhone.  Uninstalled from iPhone, re-installed.  No difference.  Uninstalled and left uninstalled for a day or more.  Re-installed, no difference.  Then I saw a report yesterday that MS had the problem corrected after a three day problem.  It also didn't work from Outlook 2010 on my home machine, but I hadn't looked at that for a several days so I didn't know it was a more general problem.

I wish cloud services would report fog or sleet when there was service irregularity.  Just last week I had to discuss with Applied that there was no way would move to cloud services.  Applied's service may be 99.99999%, but those that enable that to work are not even at a 99.99 level.

[Mark]

I think Google usually notifies, don't they?  I know I've seen things on the news and heard things on the radio, plus don't they have a services status page somewhere?

MS has always been like "too proud" or something and never tells anyone anything.  Even though I think it makes them look dumb,

[Billy Welsh]

Being a small shop and having survived 3 hurricanes since 2005, we have rolled the dice on The Cloud. 

For us the potential risks are outweighed by the higher risk of trying to manage in-house (which has not gone totally smooth through 3 hurricanes).

[Conan_Ward]

I don't think its much that Google notifies, its that the entire world freaks out if gmail goes down. Logging in as a web user to outlook, i was more than aware of the outage and the status pages, but when it came to tech news, there was only a few stories reporting after the fact.

[Mark]

When Google goes down, 40% of Internet traffic disappears.

When MS goes down, only the few who use them notice.