Verizon's 48 hour scheduled outage puts customers in a bind

How "enterprise" is enterprise?
Silicon Angle noted that many of Verizon's customers have taken to Twitter in an effort to express their displeasure with the cloud vendor's 48-hour maintenance period. Many suggested that Verizon's ability to market its services as an "enterprise cloud" has been invalidated by an outage without rolling windows of access. This critique may very well be valid. Regardless, there's a lot that data center decision makers can learn from Verizon's PR fiasco. Namely that even companies with the most secure data storage options should consider a backup strategy. Simple solutions like storing copies of enterprise apps at a second site via remote console server can help keep a company's business going even when their cloud vendors let them down.

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