by Kyle Hilgendorf | February 29, 2012 | 9 Comments
Today, Microsoft Windows Azure had an advertised outage. As of writing this blog, the outage is still in recovery mode. I spent the morning talking to a handful of Azure customers via phone, email, and Twitter. Here are some observations becoming quite evident and important learnings for cloud customers and cloud providers: Cloud providers continue [...]
Category: Cloud Microsoft Outage Providers Tags: Azure, Cloud, Microsoft, Outage
by Kyle Hilgendorf | February 3, 2012 | 9 Comments
I’m pretty vocal when it comes to challenging Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) regarding increasing the amount of public transparency they share with not only customers but with prospects. On a very regular basis, I take calls from Gartner clients about the challenges in evaluating CSPs and the frustration with the lack of published information that [...]
Category: Cloud Evaluation Providers Tags: Audit, Cloud, Evaluation, SSAE 16
