BlackBerry outage highlights cloud frailties

Martin Courtney
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A stark reminder of how failed routers, servers or datacentres underpinning hosted services can bring a business to its knees

The entire world, consumers and businesses, are moving most, if not all, their data, applications and services to the cloud if the buzz at London's recent IT Expo trade show was anything to go by. ...

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