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There have been some high profile cloud failures in the past two years.Rackspace, Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon colocation orange county have all seen complete service outages for some of their customers, taking down major web sites. Rackspace had an electrical outage in the Dallas data center that's not resolved for part of the day, leaving customers struggling to connect to some within their servers. Rackspace had to work on their power infrastructure to guarantee the issue didn't reoccur. It's the second power related outage for any same data center, so there's no certainty that they've corrected the problem.

Microsoft has had two outages, one in 2009 relating to its hosted SharePoint and Exchange services and another newer outage with just hosted Exchange. The first outage was caused by a network upgrade that had unforeseen circumstances causing a two-hour outage for clients. Better recent outage was much more systematic, keeping the email servers finally go down after two weeks with continually degrading connectivity together with speed. Email is a particularly critical business use; the outage was amplified with IT's view by the truth that it was email, which is highly visible and as used by everyone in the corporation.

Yahoo outage was of its own cloud service, the Blogger web site. Some sort of routine maintenance patch took the service out of commission for nearly 48 hours. It can be a free service, but so are the Gmail and Yahoo Docs services being touted by Google as the way to get to the cloud. Those cloud hosting servers are merely as vulnerable to the same kind of maintenance related outage for the reason that Blogger web site.

Having your web site, functions, or corporate data on a cloud hosting server comes with its share of challenges. As shown through the high profile outages, you will be at a work stoppage or serious losing revenue during an outage. The outage can be human error like a maintenance upgrade gone terribly wrong. The outage can be due to system problems, such as the extended degradation leading to failure that took available Microsoft's cloud hosted email services. Deficiencies in proper planning or weakness in the physical infrastructure of the data center can lead to an outage, like the one that affected Rackspace twice at the same facility.

To help combat this unpredictability, companies need to think ahead and arrange for failure of a cloud service to stay in business. The details or cloud component the customer has on a fog up provider's site should have some kind of redundancy built-in with another cloud provider to ensure optimal up time. The companies that experience a complete outage as a result of cloud provider's outage had only themselves to blame. Cloud providers tell their customers to have a contingency plan in case of an temporary outage of that cloud services. Even though, inside instance of Microsoft's hosted email and data solutions, there really isn't a obsolete system available, leading some recent advocates involving Microsoft's BPOS to back off and start migrating those business crucial services back in-house.

Google has had two breaches in its cloud security platform.