Adobe Creative Cloud day-long outage proof that cloud computing has a long way to go

Grazed from TechTimes.  Author: Joseph Mayton.

There are few things in the tech world that are the sole responsibility of one company, but Adobe has managed to monopolize cloud-based technology for the general public. When it went down on May 14 in the early evening Eastern Standard Time, it forced many to think twice about using the cloud for their document storage. For more than 24 hours, the Creative Cloud Suite (CCS) was offline, and so were many users.

The result has brought about many complaines that having only one company responsible for such massive amounts of data could be a detriment to productivity for thousands of people. Moreover, having one company dominating the cloud may have wideranging effects affecting mutiple industries…


Adobe issued a maintenance message shortly after the outage began stating that the CCS had gone down, along with Adobe Business Catalyst, which is an email hosting platform for email fundraising and e-commerce…

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