Can Microsoft Properly Host its own Cloud Application
nConsider the following scenario: You’re a managed services provider. Instead of investing big bucks to build your own hosted applications, you entrust your end-customers to Microsoft’s cloud including Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. But in the past few weeks, that Microsoft cloud called BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite)has gone dark at least three times. The big question: Will end-customers remain patient amid Microsoft’s SaaS growing pains? Or is there something fundamentally wrong with Microsoft’s hosting strategy?nTo understand Microsoft’s most recent cloud challenges, check out Mary Jo Foley’s All About Microsoft blog. In it, Foley describes Microsoft’s most recent outages, and Microsoft describes what went wrong and some of the potential corrective measures.n n n
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