Office 365 is 99.9% reliable, Microsoft boasts - FierceEnterpriseCommunications

Microsoft execs did a victory dance last week, announcing that the Office 365 cloud-hosted email and collaboration suite has maintained an uptime rate of over 99.9 percent for the past year. Normally, the uptime reports are available only to Office 365 members, but Microsoft decided the news was too good to keep the lid on. Quarterly uptime rates between July 2012 and June 2013 were 99.98 percent, 99.97 percent, 99.94 percent and 99.97 percent, Rajesh Jha, who leads the Office 365 engineering team at Microsoft, reported in a blog post. "We recognize that productivity apps are mission critical; using them is how work gets done. It is imperative for us to ensure our service is trustworthy and reliable while we continue to add new capabilities to Office 365," Jha wrote in his post. "Our measure for this is service availability." The Office 365 applications measured for uptime include Exchange, Lync, SharePoint and Office Web Apps. The uptime percentages are based on the number of minutes there are in each month and the number of those minutes that the Business, Government and Education editions of Office 365 were available to the public. "Individual customers may experience higher or lower uptime percentages compared to the global uptime numbers depending on location and usage patterns," Jha stated. These uptime numbers come as welcome news to Office 365 users and to would-be customers who are weighing a particular cloud computing platform. Still, even Microsoft acknowledges that despite the close-to-perfect scores, 100 percent uptime is not practical. "Running a comprehensive and evolving service at ever increasing scale is a challenge and there will be service disruptions despite our efforts," Jha noted. Read more: - check out Rajesh Jha's blog post Read more about downtime and uptime Downtime Numbers are Downright Distressing [FierceEnterpriseCommunications] Downtime: then versus now [FierceCIO] LinkedIn outage caused by human error [FierceCIOTechWatch] via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNE-8lo01aKLc-HBUcMUbCmHeMSwFA&url=http://www.fierceenterprisecommunications.com/story/office-365-999-reliable-microsoft-boasts/2013-08-12

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