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- The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure.
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- Live Webcast: Reduce the Risk of Email Downtime and Lower Your Total Cost of Ownership
- Email has become the most pervasive channel for business communication yet despite large enterprise investments in replication, mirroring, and tape backup systems, email systems continue to fail. While natural and man-made disasters can lead to email outages, new data shows that email systems are more frequently brought down by technological...
- Webcasts 2008-11-11
- Elastic servers reduce costs during weekend downtime
- Dorion Carroll, vice president of engineering for Technorati, explains that because bloggers don't blog as much on the weekends, the company can save on costs by using fewer servers during those low times, while adding servers from the Amazon cloud to deal with heavy weekday traffic. by Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Cloud rising
- Cloud risingAccording to Wikipedia, one of the main reasons Apple failed....15 years ago was that there were too many ongoing and very amazing projects that, unfortunately, could not generate any revenue. The extraordinary amazing program will be close to nothing if it cannot bring the company any profits. I...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- With Dell Email Management Services, Share Our Strength Effectively Eliminates Email Downtime, Protects Its IT Environment From Unwanted Spam & Viruses, and Significantly Reduces Data Stores
- More than 12.6 million - one in six - children in America are at risk of hunger. Share Our Strength is a national organization that works hard to make sure no kid in America grows up hungry through programs like Taste of the Nation, the Great American Bake Sale and...
- Case studies 2008-09-01
- It's not good for everything, therefore it's not good for anything
- A lot of the wintel vs Unix argument is cast in terms of this hardware or that feature but the reality is that risk and compliance, not functionality or direct cost, are the critical decision drivers both right now and for the immediate future. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Street Fleet Reduces Downtime With Improved Domain Servers
- Street Fleet has contracts with thousands of companies to perform regular deliveries and relies on its Web site for customers to schedule and track them. When the company's Web site would go down, customers were unable to place orders online, creating additional calls and data entry for staff and customer...
- Case studies 2008-07-30
- Mail Boxes Etc., Inc. Rolls Out Security Initiative to Protect Franchisees from Costly Downtime and Revenue Loss
- Read how Mail Boxes Etc., Inc., the UPS-owned franchisor of The UPS Store and Mail Boxes Etc. retail locations, uses Dell Everdream's on-demand desktop management services to cost-effectively manage and protect over 9,900 assets, significantly minimizing the risk of downtime and loss due to computer security issues.
- Case studies 2008-07-18
- Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Minimizes Downtime and Drives Out Costs With BMC Application Problem Resolution
- Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc. is a lifecycle solutions provider of hardware, software, and services for consumer transaction environments in North America. The company needed to lower support costs and improve the reliability of GlobalSTORE, the company's Windows-based retail application, by minimizing the difficulties associated with supporting myriad, site-by-site customized variants....
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Roxtec International Eliminates Expensive Downtimes
- Roxtec International wanted to ensure the future stability of the ERP system, 24 hours a day during the company's continued global expansion and minimize the risk of downtime in order to reduce costs and business risks from production loss, production faults and disruption of the administration and distribution processes. The...
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Children's Service Nonprofit Chooses Terminal Services to Foster Productivity
- A typical Northwood location is used to house and educate students, as well as host administrative offices. To serve applications to its employees, Northwood used three Citrix servers running the Windows Server 2003 operating system. According to Whitehead, downtime was not uncommon. He and his staff often used Windows Remote...
- Case studies 2008-03-06
- Wisconsin Vending Company Stocks Less Network Downtime
- La Crosse, Wisconsin-based Stansfield Vending sells, leases, and services a wide variety of vending machines. Stansfield needed to stabilize its application server, which co-existed on the same computer as DNS and DHCP servers. The DNS and DHCP servers frequently overloaded the application server. Because Stansfield Vending was already familiar with...
- Case studies 2008-03-06
- Global Survey Consulting Firm Reduces Server Deployment Time to 45 Minutes With Server Virtualization
- Server downtime and maintenance at global consultancy Gallup interfered with sensitive projects and strained the limits of the ultra-lean IT administration team. Gallup deployed a virtual server farm using VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge 2900 servers and an Internet SCSI iSCSI Storage Area Network SAN using Dell EqualLogic PS3900...
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Managing IT Risk With Symantec Business Critical Services
- The presenter of this webcast discusses how to effectively manage risk with Symantec's Business Critical Services. This solution reduces the exposure to IT risk by providing both rapid reactive service when there is a downtime incident and proactive services to keep downtime from occurring. In this complimentary webcast, based on...
- Webcasts 2008-02-19
- BTL podcast: Amazon's dark cloud, Microsoft shuffle and more...
- This week on the BTL podcast Larry and I discuss the dark cloud around Amazon's S3 on demand infrastructure. The service suffered an outage for a few hours that brought home the reality of on demand services, whether infrastructure or applications. In addition, salesforce.com suffered some service interruptions this week...
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Bebo downtime increases tenfold - third-party apps to blame?
- Downtime for the social networking site Bebo has increased tenfold from December to January, and continues an upward trend, reports the website monitoring service Pingdom. According to Pingdom's official blog: The popular social networking service had only five minutes of downtime in November and 30 minutes...
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- IT Manager Webcast: Delivering High Availability to Your Infrastructure (Level 100)
- Organizations put a lot of value on mission-critical servers and rely on them heavily to run their businesses. As a result, server downtime can be very costly. For every benefit and advantage brought to an organization by an IT solution, technology and business decision-makers should also think about how to...
- Webcasts 2008-02-07
- Karachi Stock Exchange Achieves Zero Downtime With Clustered Database Solution
- Founded in 1947, the Karachi Stock Exchange KSE is Pakistan's largest and oldest stock exchange. Karachi Stock Exchange KSE wanted to implement a robust database platform to run business-critical applications, ensure 24/7 systems availability for online trading and capture and store large amounts of confidential trade data. The challenge was...
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Medscheme Streamlines Transaction Processing and Virtually Eliminates System Downtime
- Medscheme wanted to implement a scalable, stable solution capable of handling a high number of online transactions in real time from pharmacies throughout the country and eliminated scheduled downtime caused by requirement for batch processing, regular backups and payment runs. The challenge was to improve data integrity by consolidating nine...
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Minimizing Downtime in SAP Environments
- SAP basis administrators face many challenges in a world of steadily growing and increasingly complex SAP landscapes. How to run systems on different hardware systems depending on demand and load? How to migrate and clone systems if necessary, preferably on a 24x7 basis with the least amount of resources. In...
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Web Hosting Company Increases Server Capacity Six-Fold, Reduces Costs and Downtime
- With increased demands on its Web hosting infrastructure, HostMySite.com needed a solution that would minimize downtime while maximizing the number of sites on a single Web farm. HostMySite.com utilized the Storage Area Network SAN storage solution and network load balancing of Internet Information Services 7.0 and Windows Server 2008 to...
- Case studies 2008-01-01
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