Category Archives: Cloud

Creaking Office 365 infrastructure caused by Microsoft success?

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Last April I was in sunny Las Vegas for “The Experts Conference” (TEC). While there, I reported on a keynote given by Kevin Allison, the General Manager for Exchange Customer Experience. Kevin discussed the challenges of developing a single product … Continue reading →

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Bad week for cloud services, but at least RWC 2011 has started!

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Tony Redmond

It hasn’t been a great week all round for cloud services. On Wednesday, Google Docs had an outage that lasted anything from 30 minutes to an hour, frustrating users who couldn’t do any work because all their data was “in … Continue reading →

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Have hosting companies a future competing against Office 365?

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Microsoft has a habit of introducing products that suddenly set a new price point for a market. The best example I can offer is SharePoint 2001. Prior to its launch, products that allowed enterprises to build portals that allowed users … Continue reading →

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Support – a different cultural experience when you move into the cloud

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Tony Redmond

One of the great joys of moving an application such as Exchange to a cloud provider is that they take on the responsibility of all of the mundane but necessary tasks that have to be performed to keep things going. … Continue reading →

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I wish I’d spent more on redundant network components…

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Tony Redmond

The outfall from last week’s networking failure that stopped service to Exchange users of Microsoft’s Office 365 in North America rumbles on. My rambling on the topic is some reflections on just how much a network outage has cost Microsoft … Continue reading →

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BPOS and Office 365 cloud outages – not quite nirvana yet

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Last night (my time) TweetDeck exploded with a mass of customer complaints, observations, witticisms, and moaning about the problems that afflicted the Exchange Online component of Office 365. On this occasion I wasn’t affected because the network problem that Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Office 365 sessions at Fall Exchange Connections

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Tony Redmond

One of the factors that drives the selection of sessions for a conference is the kind of information that the conference organizers want to offer to attendees. In the case of Exchange Connections, that information is linked to Exchange Server. … Continue reading →

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Microsoft tells BPOS customers to wait until they can be migrated to Office 365

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I just made this blog post on WindowsITPro.com. It reflects on some issues raised by Microsoft’s August 7 post on TechNet that explains that basic steps required to migrate an organization manually from BPOS to Office 365. If you are … Continue reading →

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G-Mailman video from Microsoft

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Tony Redmond

In my post about the positioning and marketing wars between Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps, I discussed the fact that the battle between Microsoft and Google is likely to be a tad dirty at times. I therefore wasn’t surprised … Continue reading →

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An interesting ZDNet comparison between Google Apps and Office 365

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Tony Redmond

The guest commentary by Louis Naugès posted on ZDNet (July 25, 2011) that compares Google Apps and Office 365 poses some interesting questions that deserve attention. Louis is the co-founder and chief cloud evangelist of international Google Apps integrator Revevol and is an admitted Google … Continue reading →

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