Is Daz in sales ?
'In the meantime, pity poor Daz, who had just finished explaining the joy of cloud when it all came crashing down. ®'
See title. Daz can go explain himself and is getting no pity from me.
Microsoft's on-again, off-again relationship with the Outlook clients of UK Office 365 subscribers has entered its second day, and some users found themselves still unable to access their email. It looked like things were sorting themselves out by the end of Monday, and Microsoft's Twitter mouthpiece confirmed as much. We're …
"I put all my eggs in someone else's basket and have no idea where the basket is or what's happened to my eggs but I'm assured that I can get them back and look at them any time I ask to..."
Yeah... poor Daz, my backside.
At the very least you need it as an EXTENSION on in-house/on-prem, but not a replacement. That's just stupid.
Fortunately, the exact thing that Daz is suggesting (outsource the IT department to Microsoft) is likely the exact thing that will happen too. Not only is it "how to put all your eggs in someone else's basket", it's also "how to put myself out of a job even if everything worked 100% as I expected".
Never mind Daz, the people you were preaching to now know that you have zero idea of the concepts of risk assessment and mitigation, as indeed the rest of the world do too, after you publicly demonstrated it on Twitter. Good luck with getting hired again after doing that.
how us techie types can yell "The cloud is not a good idea as we're going to get outages in service."
And its as if the manglement put fingers in their ears and go "lalalalalalalalala we cant hear you" (I think the offsite snake oil salesman put spells on them to make them to that)... then fire all the doom mongering tech types.
Until today when the senior manglement say "wheres our emails?"
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That argument was valid from the onset of this current cloud fad and it has already been validated a good number of times, Daz.
It's not our fault if you ignore reality until it bites you in the demo.
And honestly, with Microsoft's could performance this year, you can thank your lucky stars it only happened to you in November.
Office 365 Exchange user here, no problems last week - no problems this week. I hate to spoil the "you only get problems in the cloud" narrative - in fact I've been using it all year and not had a single problem that wasn't caused by on-prem network issues (I could access my work email from a nearby coffee shop with WiFi though).
You get unplanned downtime/inaccessibility with on-prem solutions too, arguing that cloud is bad because; "look, Office 365 is having issues right now!!!" falls flat on it's face when you apply the same argument to an on-prem solution (it's just that you don't have to publish to the world that something went wrong)