Veeam kicks Facebook while it's down

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Outages at massive tech firms such as Facebook should be extinct, backup firm claims

Backup and disaster-recovery vendor Veeam has blasted Facebook for its outage this morning, claiming that IT problems at such a huge company should be "rare, if not extinct". The social network ...

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