Tag Archives: SSL

March 13, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Microsoft’s Azure Outage Post Mortem

By Ben Kepes

A couple of weeks ago Microsoft had one of their worst days and watched as a massive outage took out Azure services globally. The outage lasted about a day and took down a huge number of sites and applications. After a few hours it became apparent that the outage was

Tagged azure, cloud computing, HTTP Secure, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Microsoft, Public key certificate, Secret Store, SSL |

February 22, 2013 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Microsoft has Massive Azure Outage-Heads Must Roll!

By Ben Kepes

The screen shot says it all – as I type Microsoft Azure is suffering from an outage, possibly caused by an expired SSL certificate. Services across the globe are completely down with limited visibility into why and when they will be back up. The Azure service dashboard (hosted on AWS

Tagged azure, cloud computing, data center, Eastern Time Zone, HTTP Secure, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, SSL |

November 13, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

FileLocker Launches By Taking a Shot at Dropbox and Box

By Ben Kepes

On a daily basis I get press releases from companies offering to be the “Dropbox for the Enterprise”, these companies are treading the well worn path of leveraging the well recognized name of a player in order to get their point across. Perhaps in an indication of the market success

Tagged Cloud storage, Data Loss Prevention, dropbox, Egnyte, Encryption, FileLocker, Ken Shaw, security, SSL, Star Trek: Enterprise, venturebeat |

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.