Azure Disruptions Show Firms Need a Plan for When Outages Occur

Abacus CTO Viktor Tadijanovic discusses having proper contingencies in place for a service interruption

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Viktor Tadijanovic, CTO of Abacus

The bulk of Microsoft Azure's outage last week might have only lasted less than 12 hours, but the service interruption left ripples that could be felt for days after.

Twitter and Azure's service blog have been inundated with complaints from customers spanning several industries about the inconvenience of Microsoft's public cloud's second major outage in less than four months.

Coincidentally, as the dust was still settling on the Azure crash, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted a

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