IBM had massive, world-wide outages in their cloud platform on April 28 and 29. Both were unrelated to each other. They were screwups of simple things like DNS and network config. The failover config that is supposed to provide high availability and prevent this from affecting customers was done wrong and never kicked in. This is IT 101 stuff. IBM had by far the worst cloud downtime in 2015 (17 hours compared to Amazon's 2 hours the whole year) and this has really blown their 2016 number already. There were also disc failures on a massive scale, which says something about the hardware this house of cards is built on.
Anybody out there feel warm and fuzzy about running their business-critical systems on IBM's cloud platforms? Didn't think so. This is what happens when you "save money" by firing your experienced, knowledgeable, well-trained staff in order to off-shore and also bring in a bunch of H-1B "cheap resources" with fake degrees, no experience, very poor communication skills and no knowledge of the existing systems and how they are set up. Plus, the remaining employees that are experienced and knowledgeable are so demoralized by the disgusting actions of Ginny and the board, they couldn't care less. This is what happens when you turn a tech company over to the marketing, sales, and accounting people.