More reaction to Verizon's announced up to 48 hour cloud shutdown
(Computerworld):
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2865802/verizon-warns-enterprise-cloud-users-of-48-hour-shutdown.html
The company confirmed this afternoon that its new cloud service,
Verizon Cloud, will be shut down for maintenance for as long as two
days starting at 1 a.m. ET on Saturday, Jan. 10. Users are being told
to shut down their virtual machines an hour before the maintenance
work begins ...
"Enterprise services typically measure downtime in seconds or less,"
he said. "Hours of downtime is often considered a high-severity
problem. Days of downtime is a primary reason to discontinue using the
service. This would be intolerable to most businesses of any size and
absolutely unacceptable to enterprises.... A planned outage of several
days in today's world is largely unheard of and should serve as a
massive red flag for this service." Verizon simply should have made
this outage invisible to their users, shifting customers to redundant
resources during a slow time. Said Enderle: "Cutting them off is
insanely stupid."
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