Microsoft restores Cloud services after outage
Microsoft has confirmed that several of its most popular Cloud Computing services experienced a service outage lasting around two hours overnight.
The corporation said Hotmail, Office 365 (its alternative to Google’s online ‘Google Docs’ office applications suite, and SkyDrive were all affected by the outage, which took place between 4:00am and 6:30am British Summer Time.
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Outages A Fact of Life
If ever you doubted the downside of cloud computing - here it is. Outages. If it can happen to Microsoft you can bet it can happen to anyone.
In this case it proved to be a minor inconvenience but recently I had an outage with Todoist which runs my task list, and to judge the reaction on Twitter you would have thought it was the end of the world rather than an outage of six or so hours.
But for those for us with systems backed up to the cloud - Carbonite, CrashPlan, and so on - makes you think doesn't it? Personally, I also have my iMac backed up locally to Time Machine. Thank goodness!!