PayPal’s PayPal unit suffered a worldwide outage early this month. PayPal blamed the outage on a problem with a “back-end router” that was complicated by a failure in the company’s redundancy measures. Analysts say the number of such outages appears to have been increasing in recent months. IT budget and personnel cutbacks are possible reasons for the apparent uptick in online outages, analysts say. Some IT managers say recent outages aren’t changing their minds about using hosted services, they say.”]
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