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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 08:07 AM EDT |
If my impressions from the melt down of MS Azure service earlier this year
and MS explanations then I think investors are crazy.
MS explanation of what went wrong may well be true but it shows a number
of serious problems with MS management.
A simple comparision with some thing very ordinary is useful
MS knew that the security certificates were going to expire in about 2 weeks
so they prepared new ones and placed them on a computer with for
propagation but with a low priority and they didn't get propagated so the
whole system went down.
Say your car registration papers arrive in the mail and you fill them in and
write the cheque and put both in an envelope to post - no hurry it isn't due
for a couple of weeks. You put the envelope on the desk thinking I'll do that
later. You get an invitation to a wedding and the kid brings an important
note from school etc and before you know it your rego renewal envelope is
underneath a pile of stuff and you don't realise it until you get pulled over
and get a ticket and told to leave your car right there till you get everything
paid etc.
Any checks MS made were about as effective as looking at the cheque butts
to see if you wrote out the check and didn't care about posting the
envelope.
What this tells me :-
1 the computer system was under resourced in some way because there
was no time that the load reduced to a level that allowed the propagation
to take place,
2 The individual (or team) responsible for the certificates did not know that
the system was under resourced, (if anyone at all knew)
3 No one checked to see if the certifcates had propagated and
4 there was no management processes in place to ensure proper checks
were made.
Why would any one want to use MS Azure service if that is how it is
managed? And that is how it is (maybe was) managed.
I have no idea how hard it would be to check that the certifcates had
propagated but I do know that it would be easy to check whether the
browser choice was still in Windows before sending off the certificate to the
EU that yes it is still there when it isn't.
MS problem is that the management is incompetent!!
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 08:08 AM EDT |
If my impressions from the melt down of MS Azure service earlier this year
and MS explanations then I think invetors are craz.
MS explanation of what went wrong may well be true but it shows a number
of serious problems with MS management.
A simple comparision with some thing very ordinary is useful
MS knew that the security certificates were going to expire in about 2 weeks
so they prepared new ones and placed them on a computer with for
propagation but with a low priority and they didn't get propagated so the
whole system went down.
Say your car registration papers arrive in the mail and you fill them in and
write the cheque and put both in an envelope to post - no hurry it isn't due
for a couple of weeks. You put the envelope on the desk thinking I'll do that
later. You get an invitation to a wedding and the kid brings an important
note from school etc and before you know it your rego renewal envelope is
underneath a pile of stuff and you don't realise it until you get pulled over
and get a ticket and told to leave your car right there till you get everything
paid etc.
Any checks MS made were about as effective as looking at the cheque butts
to see if you wrote out the check and didn't care about posting the
envelope.
What this tells me :-
1 the computer system was under resourced in some way because there
was no time that the load reduced to a level that allowed the propagation
to take place,
2 The individual (or team) responsible for the certificates did not know that
the system was under resourced, (if anyone at all knew)
3 No one checked to see if the certifcates had propagated and
4 there was no management processes in place to ensure proper checks
were made.
Why would any one want to use MS Azure service if that is how it is
managed? And that is how it is (maybe was) managed.
I have no idea how hard it would be to check that the certifcates had
propagated but I do know that it would be easy to check whether the
browser choice was still in Windows before sending off the certificate to the
EU that yes it is still there when it isn't.
MS problem is that the management is incompetent!!
Chris B[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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