Posted on 09/09/2011 11:43:39 AM PDT by NoLibZone
REDMOND, Wash. - The world's largest email provider, Microsoft, was struggling to restore its services Friday after outages that reportedly affected up to 365 million users worldwide.
The service disruptions affected a variety of Microsoft email products including Office 365, MSN.com, Live@edu and Windows Live Hotmail. The extent of the disruption was unclear, but Microsoft confirmed problems in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
"We're rolling out a fix that we believe will resolve issues with Hotmail, SkyDrive, and our other Live properties," the company tweeted around 2:00am ET.
Read more: http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/your_money/crash-affects-millions-of-microsoft-users-20110909-ncx#ixzz1XTx8HlYo
So they do not have two load-balanced data centers separated by at least 500 miles?
Central planning is not robust.
Does this mean that Micro$oft was
running computer centers without a UPS?How un-professional of Micro$oft.
I’ll have to read the article later, but I don’t understand what patch they need to roll out due to a power failure.
The future of computing is in the “Cloud” !!
uh huh.
ping
For people who think cloud computing is the future, BE WARNED!
Think of the cloud as the old mainframes with a lot better "pipes" and smarter terminals...
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