Tag Archives: Cloud

Latest Office 365 SLA results prove robust performance

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Tony Redmond

A recent question raised the issue of how well Microsoft has done against their vaunted 99.9% availability goal for Office 365. It’s a good question to ask because clearly all cloud services need to keep on proving that they can … Continue reading →

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The need for a cloud Plan B

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Tony Redmond

For most important decisions that you take in life it’s wise to have a Plan B. Something that you can do to reverse course should the unexpected occur and you need to revert to a previous position. And so it … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest: August 2013

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Tony Redmond

August proved to be quite an entertaining month in terms of the topics that were available to be covered in Exchange Unwashed. Here’s my take on the posts: The sad, curious, and brain-dead demise of TechNet subscriptions (August 1): While … Continue reading →

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European Office 365 datacenters exposed to U.S. authorities?

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Tony Redmond

After the razzmatazz of the corporate Office 365 launch in NYC faded, local Microsoft subsidiaries around the world did their own thing to brief journalists and introduce details of local offerings, such as link-ups with telcos to deliver Office 365 packaged … Continue reading →

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Preparing for Spring Connections and first impressions of Office 365

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Earlier this week Brian K. Winstead, the author of the Exchange and Outlook blog on http://www.windowsitpro.com, contacted me to ask about the keynote that I’ll be giving at the Spring 2011 Exchange Connections event at the JW Marriott Resort hotel … Continue reading →

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Whoops! Where’s my Inbox?

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Tony Redmond

One of the weaknesses inherent in cloud-based services was displayed once again on February 28 when Gmail service was lost to some 500,000 users, or as Google expressed it, 0.29% of the total user base (I love the way that … Continue reading →

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Exchange in the Cloud

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I wrote this text as a “web-only chapter” for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out, (also available at Amazon.co.uk and as a Kindle edition, with other e-book formats for the book are available from the O’Reilly web site). Unfortunately the chapter … Continue reading →

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