When Good Cloud Goes Bad – Know All About Cloud Outages

Putting your applications into the cloud is easy and affordable. Managing them is simple with a centralized and customizable management portal. This makes the workload of manually configuring and provisioning resources quick and simple. On the downside, this can also lead to Cloud Outages.

Just like any IT system, cloud-based services and servers can suffer from outages, but because of large number of users, the consequences are usually larger.

In spite of this, more corporate customers, end users, recognize that service disruptions are inevitable and the benefits they get from the cloud providers such as AWS or Microsoft Azure, far outweigh the risks associated with its cloud services.

 

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Warning: Cloud Sprawl Causing Business Inefficiencies!

If your IT Managers are losing sleep over the widespread use of a wide variety of unsanctioned cloud services, then you are facing the inevitable Cloud Sprawl situation.

Any enterprise currently uses the Cloud in some capacity for its corporate use. The cloud solutions and services offer accessibility, security, availability, and productivity, that makes it the ideal platform.

The flipside of this innovation is that they are losing control over their data assets. Unrestricted and uncontrolled access, can compromise on the integrity and security of their corporate data. Using unauthorized cloud services can lead to business inefficiencies in the long run.

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Dealing with Cloud Outages – Live, Learn, Fix & Start Over!

The cloud explosion has resulted in business in going overboard with moving their applications to the cloud. The cost effective, easy and manageable cloud services is the impetus required to switch to different cloud service providers.

As cloud services change the IT landscape, the risk of a cloud outage is keeping businesses from fully adopting the cloud. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google and other cloud service providers have faced many times outages of their cloud services.

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