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With recent outages, big data service providers take hits
IDG News Service (Aug 18 2009)
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A variety of Internet-based service providers have seen outages in recent months, raising questions about whether recession-induced cutbacks are killing reliability. Or is the increasing use of external cloud providers, coupled with near-instantaneous Twitter reports of outages, just making what's normal seem worse?
When eBay Inc.'s PayPal unit suffered an outage Aug. 3, one of the companies affected was Sailrite Enterprises Inc., a sailing supply company in Churubusco, Ind. Sailrite lost its customer payment services for six hours.
The next day, PayPal's services failed again --
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