Azure cloud outages ...
FYI...
Azure cloud restored after major outage...
- http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...a-major-outage
Aug 19 2014 - "Microsofts's Azure Cloud Service has encountered partial, and in some cases complete, outages around the world. Twitter users have reported Azure being slightly wobbly for the past few days, and then last night a number of outage reports were posted on the Azure service status webpage*..."
* https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#history
Also see: Sep/Oct 2014 history @ URL above.
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- http://www.netskope.com/blog/84-euro...-confidential/
Sep 17, 2014 - "84% of European IT and security practitioners report that they don’t believe their cloud service providers would notify them immediately if their intellectual property or business confidential information were breached. This finding is from our most recent report entitled “Data Breach: The Cloud Multiplier Effect in European Countries,” a collaboration with research firm the Ponemon Institute*. It highlights the profound lack of trust that European IT professionals have in the cloud, and the significant hurdle the industry must overcome for those professionals to get comfortable with the massive cloud adoption that is happening in enterprises across the region."
* http://www.ponemon.org/blog/can-a-da...ostly-incident
- http://www.netskope.com/reports/pone...iplier-effect/
"... highlights from the report:
• Increasing use of cloud services can increase the probability of a $20 million data breach by as much as 3x
• 36 percent of business-critical applications are housed in the cloud, yet IT isn’t aware of nearly half of them
• 30 percent of business information is stored in the cloud, yet 35 percent of it isn’t visible to IT ..."
