Heading Into An IPO Year And Trying To Score Enterprise Customers – Dropbox’s Outage Timing Sucks

Outages for cloud vendors always suck. Firstly customers get antsy. Then the cloud pundits start wringing their hands and finally the naysayers use it as a justification for giving up on this “new fangled cloud malarkey” and sticking with good old on-premises solutions. But when an outage happens to a vendor who is trying their hardest to appear “enterprise-ready” and is also gunning for an IPO listing this year, everything just gets that much worse. And so there are no doubt a bunch of bleary eyes in Dropbox’s San Francisco headquarters this evening as engineers and PR folks try their hardest to recover technologically and brand-wise from their outage this weekend, an outage that lasted a couple of days in some cases.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/01/12/heading-into-an-ipo-year-and-trying-to-score-enterprise-customers-dropboxs-outage-timing-sucks/