Microsoft Office 365 outage? Ensure business continuity during downtime

Yesterday, Office 365 experienced a significant outage for more than a day across Europe, leaving customers unable to log in to Exchange Online to read, respond, send, or receive new emails. This isn’t the first time that Microsoft has experienced outages. Just a few months ago, in November 2018, Office 365 users experienced issues trying to log in to their accounts.

With email being a primary
communication tool for most organizations, email outages mean losses in employee
productivity, communication, and revenue. Organizations that migrated to the
cloud with Office 365 gave up control of their uptime and failover. When Office
365 goes down, their email communication goes down with it.

How Email Continuity Service can
help

But it doesn’t always have to
be this way. While the most recent Office 365 outage is unfortunate, organizations
that have Barracuda’s Email Continuity Service in place have nothing to worry
about. In the event of an Exchange server failure, or in this case an Office
365 outage, our Email Continuity Service allows IT administrators to failover
to third-party cloud-based email servers to continue email operations until
services are restored. 

During this failover time, Barracuda’s
Email Continuity Service allows end users to send, receive, compose, and
forward emails when email services are unavailable. This keeps the company
moving and employees productive so that orders can be processed, customer and
vendor communication can continue, and any other operations that require
email continue seamlessly.

Barracuda Essentials includes Email Continuity Service, which ensures that email operations continue. An emergency mailbox lets users continue to send and receive emails, staying productive until your primary servers are back online.

Barracuda Resources

• Learn more about Barracuda
  Essentials
• To learn more about the Essentials Email Continuity Service, visit
  Barracuda
  Campus