Re: we are the Cloud, you will adapt to service us. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
It's a better solution to almost every enterprise problem than on-premise anything. Do outages occur? Yep, whats worse tho, an outage that microsoft spends it's time fixing or one you do? Because they will still happen to you even if you don't have cloud based anything. Power goes out, how long does your UPS last, bro?
The UPS may last for 2-3 hours when the power goes out, but the access to the local server and the cloud would last for the same amount of time when the power goes out. This is because your example is an event that affects both the local server and clients.
The cloud is someone else's computer. There's nothing wrong with using it, but there's a problem when you overly depend on it without any backups. Without backups, you have not control of what happens to the data in the cloud. You snooze you lose.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
