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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Post-mortem: <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/cloud-storage/microsoft-azure-storage-service-outage-postmortem/d/d-id/1317619?_mc=RSS_IWK_EDT">http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/cloud-storage/microsoft-azure-storage-service-outage-postmortem/d/d-id/1317619?_mc=RSS_IWK_EDT</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Frank<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Outages-discussion [mailto:outages-discussion-bounces@outages.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Frank Bulk<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 19, 2014 11:14 AM<br><b>To:</b> outages-discussion@outages.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Outages-discussion] Yesterday's news: Microsoft Azure hit with major service outage affecting OneDrive, Microsoft Blogs, Microsoft Band, and more<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>FYI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><a href="http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-azure-hit-major-service-outage-affecting-onedrive-microsoft-blogs-microsoft-band-and"><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-azure-hit-major-service-outage-affecting-onedrive-microsoft-blogs-microsoft-band-and</span></a><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'>Microsoft's cloud service was hit with an unexpected global outage today [11/18/2014], lasting nearly an hour. "An alert for Websites and Storage in multiple regions is being investigated. It has not been determined if this is customer impacting. More information will be provided as it is known," the Azure Status page stated during the outage.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Frank<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>