
The Outage Outlook
Any prolonged cloud outage is a public relations nightmare not only for the company that experienced it, but for the industry as a whole.
As the cloud matures, service disruptions are getting shorter in duration and less frequent. Still, failures -are inevitable, and when they occur, the angriest of users, be they enterprise customers reliant on mission-critical apps or consumers of social networks, will surely make their voices heard.
Here are the 10 outages so far this year that have generated the most public backlash and, accordingly, did the most to deteriorate public trust in the whole cloud services model for IT.