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<h1 itemprop="name" class="article-title">SSP accused of making &#039;wrong call&#039; over decision not to use secondary data centre after outage</h1>
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<p class="article-summary">SSP has a backup data centre that wasn’t used when an outage occurred last week because of concerns that a modest amount of data would be lost, Post understands. </p><p>Normally in the event of an outage, service will seamlessly transfer to the secondary ‘mirror' data centre - which is identical to the main site in terms of hardware and operating capacity.</p>
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