I was at a CIO conference a few weeks ago (just after PSN went down) and the Sony reps there stated that Sony was undertaking a massive effort to centralize all

I was at a CIO conference a few weeks ago (just after PSN went down) and the Sony reps there stated that Sony was undertaking a massive effort to centralize all their servers across divisions into one group in a cost saving measure. Not sure how accurate that info is but it may be a contributing factor to these problems.