Comments on: What Do PayPal and Cisco Have in Common? http://gigaom.com/2009/08/04/what-do-paypal-and-cisco-have-in-common/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: JK http://gigaom.com/2009/08/04/what-do-paypal-and-cisco-have-in-common/#comment-219887 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:48:34 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=62055#comment-219887 I wonder which vendor’s network equipment experienced a failure at PayPal. That must have been one heck of a hardware failure affecting multiple devices, with the assumption that they would have implemented a highly redundant/fault-tolerant infrastructure.

]]> By: Jack Won http://gigaom.com/2009/08/04/what-do-paypal-and-cisco-have-in-common/#comment-219886 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:03:01 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=62055#comment-219886 Further, this is a black eye – Cisco of all companies should have had redundancy so that an alternate data center should have kicked in using any number of products it itself manufactures. Own dog food and insert other metaphors here…

]]> By: Jack Won http://gigaom.com/2009/08/04/what-do-paypal-and-cisco-have-in-common/#comment-219885 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:59:52 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=62055#comment-219885 Hmm. Earnings day is today. Probably not a good idea to schedule maintenance the night before.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2009/08/04/what-do-paypal-and-cisco-have-in-common/#comment-219884 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:57:01 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=62055#comment-219884 Tom

thanks for pointing that out. I totally botched it. Sorry about the error. Fixed to reflect my error.

]]> By: Tom R http://gigaom.com/2009/08/04/what-do-paypal-and-cisco-have-in-common/#comment-219883 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:26:05 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=62055#comment-219883 The link you provide to the Cisco outage has a date stamp of Aug 9, 2007. Is this the link you wanted to reference?

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