Well, cloud life. If it fails, it fails spectacularly.
It's the good old "too many eggs in one basket", amplified. Not something unexpected.
Guess what, internet was built as a very broad resilient distributed system in its original services. If "my" mail server was down, it was "just me and my company".
Now we are re-centralizing some critical dependencies (like say authentication/authorizaton IAM) to the point that even some onprem systems are cross wired to cloud to function... what could possibly go wrong? :D
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu June 05, 2025 09:18 AM
From: Marius le Roux
Subject: Numerous IBM i support websites are down and IDK how to get this fixed.
yes, the legal eagles does swoop on some sites, saw my fair share.
to the link you posted, and I quote here (with a slight "chuckle" on the cloud understanding part)
Such recurring disruptions underscore the broader implications for enterprise IT strategy, often resulting in enterprises focusing on improving their cloud resilience beyond vendor contracts.
"To attain true resilience, organizations must prioritize robust technical safeguards-such as multi-cloud strategies and geo-distributed architectures, as well as, strong contractual protections, including comprehensive SLAs. While a single outage may not immediately drive change, repeated failures or inadequate incident response can compel enterprises to diversify their cloud providers," Ram said.
Gogia pointed out that building resilience today goes well beyond backup storage and secondary data centres. "Enterprises are now investing in multi-layer observability, cross-platform orchestration tooling, and secondary access routes that remain available even during vendor platform disruption. This could mean hosting lightweight admin portals outside the primary provider, deploying mirrored telemetry in a separate region, or using independent DNS management."
These recent cloud outage examples - while not catastrophic - serve as useful stress tests that help identify soft spots in architecture and policy.
which given the correct framing and mind , will be quite a good sales pitch still to sell people big iron on premises. (especially considering a multi-cloud strategy is way more in cost than what most sales people would like to admit).
but I do feel that its each cloud vendor's turn to see where the cracks come loose. Microsoft had their fair share over the past 3 years.
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Marius le Roux theIBMiGuy
Owner , IBM i Consultant & Technology Strategist
MLR Consulting
Original Message:
Sent: Thu June 05, 2025 09:00 AM
From: Robert Berendt
Subject: Numerous IBM i support websites are down and IDK how to get this fixed.
I find it completely unacceptable that these websites have been down for DAYS!!!
Being a Champion one is encouraged to bite your tongue on too much public criticism. Some days this is hard.
While, as you suggested, it may be prudent to occasionally download PDF versions of certain IBM sites there are some other things to consider.
One, many of these sites do not have PDF versions. You may have to create your own.
Two, in the past some people have created sites like wayback. IBM Legal tends to hold these with great disdain.
The press is starting to pick up on these sites being down. Perhaps our use of these sites for informational purposes is taking a far back seat to those who actually try to run their business on IBM Cloud. https://www.networkworld.com/article/4000752/ibm-cloud-stumbles-again-second-major-outage-in-two-weeks.html Maybe we should cut IBM some slack as they allocate resources to those poor fellows.
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Robert Berendt IBMChampion
Business Systems Analyst, Lead
Dekko
Fort Wayne
Original Message:
Sent: Thu June 05, 2025 05:57 AM
From: Marius le Roux
Subject: Numerous IBM i support websites are down and IDK how to get this fixed.
I have been getting this error:
every so often on a few IBM sites , kind of annoying.
perhaps this is a good idea for everyone to keep a sacred archive of very critical information just incase there is a "smell of another migration" looming....
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Marius le Roux theIBMiGuy
Owner , IBM i Consultant & Technology Strategist
MLR Consulting
Original Message:
Sent: Wed June 04, 2025 07:33 AM
From: Robert Berendt
Subject: Numerous IBM i support websites are down and IDK how to get this fixed.
Numerous IBM i support websites are down and IDK how to get these fixed.
I tried multiple browsers. I even tried my cell phone's browser with the company wifi turned off.
I cannot get to several IBM sites:
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Robert Berendt IBMChampion
Business Systems Analyst, Lead
Dekko
Fort Wayne
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