Outlook down

[malachi]

And this is why cloud services suck. Companies stupidly outsourced all of their IT so now they are at the mercy of external issues as well.

Doesn't matter if your ISP goes down. Which we have zero control over, never mind cloud services.

 

[Armageus]

Doesn't matter if your ISP goes down. Which we have zero control over, never mind cloud services.

Any business that depends on an internet connection has more than one ISP and ideally delivered from different exchanges or via different tech (e.g. satellite or 5g backup)

 

[malachi]

Any business that depends on an internet connection has more than one ISP and ideally delivered from different exchanges or via different tech (e.g. satellite or 5g backup)

Not for some of the companies I have worked for due to costs.

 

[Armageus]

Not for some of the companies I have worked for due to costs.

Granted something suitable is not cheap, but having no internet for a day isn't either in most businesses

 

[robj20]

Whole world stops because everyone put all their eggs in Microsoft's basket. Then they dropped it.

For 1 day, in how long?

 

[Bumhug]

Pretty much everyone spoke to yesterday thought it was great to have a day without being bombarded with pointless emails

 

[Werewolf]

Pretty much everyone spoke to yesterday thought it was great to have a day without being bombarded with pointless emails

Come monday they'll get the backlog of "is anyone else's email not working today" messages

 

[MissChief]

Any business that depends on an internet connection has more than one ISP and ideally delivered from different exchanges or via different tech (e.g. satellite or 5g backup)

Any that has an Internet Leased Line I'd expect to have at least an FTTC connection as a backup, perhaps even FTTP and/or RO2 resilience. We offer RO2 if End User's want it, but it's not cheap. Even dual running, 1Gb circuits with Exchange resilience can have significant upfront costs if full, duct resilience is requested as well as the ongoing rental for both legs which can amount to £10k a year. I did hear of one site with a 10GB service who had a single FTTC circuit as their fallback which sounds mental to me.

 

[BUDFORCE]

Pretty much everyone spoke to yesterday thought it was great to have a day without being bombarded with pointless emails

One less thing I had to occasionally check on my second monitor whilst playing Wardogs.