Not prepared for cloud outages? You should be
Today’s global economy is deeply dependent on cloud services – the EU estimates that nearly 53% of its businesses use paid cloud services of some kind, with some countries reaching nearly 80%. Almost across the board, this dependency has grown rapidly even within the last few years.
Cloud services underpin a host of vital operations – DNS resolvers hosted by AWS allow users to access websites, Email servers that run through Google are vital for communicating with customers and colleagues alike, and data storage in services like SharePoint is necessary for holding vital client files.
The more functions that businesses upload to the cloud, the more disruptive any disruption can become.
Although each business uses cloud differently, suddenly having no access to cloud servicesis almost always disruptive, chaotic, and sometimes paralyzing for businesses. Unfortunately, this is hardly a remote possibility, and large-scale outages are becoming fairly common – with...
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