Company underbosses outsource key infrastructure to outsource reponsibility w/inevitable worldwide failure as result
Sometimes outsourced computer infrastructure fails but then at lest the companies can blame 3'rd parties and say they can do nothing about it. /As if that is a positive. The truth is that it is still their responsibility and top bosses shouldn't accept such feeble excuses from their management team. The different departments made thier choice and when it fails, even if its a third party fail, they need to still own it. when you outource the running and key parts of your infrastructure to sample Microsoft Azure it will still be you customers problem when it fails, and therefore yours. Large serverfarms are often remote from key personell. And the more of it there is the less personell there are per server. Do you trust them to test upgrades thoroughly before mass rollout. Do you thrust them to only mass rollout to a part of the network so that those can be isolated and other parts still function if mistakes are done. Did you check that this is the case, always. Are you sure you...