From off-prem to just off: IBM Cloud goes down planet-wide so hard even the status page didn't work IBM’s cloud has gone down hard across the world. We’d love to tell you just how hard the service has hit the dirt, but even the Big Blue status page is intermittently unavailable: IBM cloud outage June 10 2020 IBM Cloud status page ... Click to enlarge Your humble hack has an IBM Cloud account, and when attempting to login …
It has also taken out Notes globally for IBM users regardless of whether we use the web or Notes application. At least I don't have to put up with more emails from HR asking me 'How are we doing?' or "How are you feeling?'
Our account team told us if we need to email the customer to use a customer provided email (if you have one) but make sure no IBM Confidential material is transferred using said accounts.
Your cloud is important to us. If you'd like to know more, press refresh for an hour or more.
How is sitting in front of your computer pressing refresh for an entire hour supposed to inform.
Will thetans or moronai be delivering the information telepathically?
I am always happy when I read these kinds of stories. I imagine the guy in the office who championed the transition to cloud, parroting the inevitable "always on" line that always fails. I imagine the looks he gets during an outage like this. Especially when nobody can work since nothing is available.
Now I get that networking at scale is a complicated business, especially since you have to also deal with security issues on top of everything else. Nonetheless, there seems to me to be a need for a bit more resiliency. The fact that IBM's cloud hit the ground seems to mean that there is something at the top that failed hard and took everything with it. That looks pretty much like a single point of failure from where I sit.
I don't know what it is, but it sure seems that a bit of redundancy would be a good thing.
fnarrr fnarrr fnarrr
store it in the cloud they said
it will be always available they said
but "they said" did not take into account network outages (like this one) or a break in your local fibre preventing you from accessing your preciouses files...
naaaaah, old school with on-prem is still king for now.
Sure, use cloud for backup or data retention... and hope that it will be online when you need to restore a file or whatever....
I always get a knowing smirk when I tell people what I think of having everything, including the "Family Jewels", in the cloud. I always get the "but it is always on" and we "do not have to test resiliency" (my favorite), and the always popular, "we are in multiple zones and regions so we can be back up and running in minutes".
I always say really you need to prove it to my satisfaction.
They then try to old "but they tell us it is idiot proof".
I usually just say, that is impossible, since there is always a bigger idiot.
Just another arrow in the quiver for these discussions.
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