Verizon Gets 'Black Eye' in Long Cloud Shutdown

The Verizon Cloud platform is up and running again after a 40-hour shutdown over the weekend for a planned upgrade.
For an industry that generally measures downtime in minutes or several hours, this was a long shutdown. But Verizon says the outage means it won’t have to interrupt users’ service again for future upgrades.
Even so, one user found to be too little too late.
“When a company claims enterprise-grade global services, they are asking customers to entrust their most important