technology failures
Power Struggle: How IT Managers Cope With Data Center Power Demands and the Raptor Solution
White Paper The primary goals for data center operators are to save power costs and cool the systems to prevent heat-induced failures, expand data center space without straining the company budget every time an expansion occurs and... [26 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Clusters, High Availability & Extending Protection Offsite: Understanding the Options
White Paper Companies need to ensure that they are protected from failures such as network outages, power loss, natural disasters, or even data corruption. This webcast will give the listener a technical overview of how XOsoft's HA... [10 Apr 2008]
VERITAS Database Edition for Oracle: Guidelines for Using Storage Checkpoint and Storage Rollback With Oracle Databases
White Paper VERITAS Storage Checkpoint and Storage Rollback make up an innovative solution designed to recover from logical failures with minimum down time. This paper will examine how to use this solution to help recover from... [10 Apr 2008]
How and Why Mission-Critical Cooling Systems Differ From Common Air Conditioners
White Paper Standard comfort air conditioning is ill suited for technology rooms, leading to system shutdowns and component failures. Today's technology rooms require precise, stable environments in... [10 Apr 2008]
Five Ways to Reduce Costs for Batch Processing
White Paper Fortunately, infrastructure management technology provides alternatives to upgrades; alternatives that deliver more consistent and better batch performance, without the cost impact of repeated upgrades or the business... [03 Apr 2008]
Replication Best Practices for Oracle 10g With ASM & EVA8000
White Paper When properly configured and deployed, they are capable of providing a timely recovery from a variety of failures, up to and including the loss of an entire datacenter site. For this report the authors have distilled... [29 Mar 2008]
Smooth Transition From SAP 4.7 to ECC 5.0 in Eleven Countries With Automated Regression Testing Resulting in Significant Time and Cost Savings for Getronics
White Paper The framework allowed selective execution of business scenarios and offered capturing and reporting of SAP error messages for better understanding of failures. Getronics is one of the world's leading providers of... [28 Mar 2008]
IP Next-Generation Network Requirements for Scalable and Reliable Broadcast IPTV Services
White Paper Cisco has developed a service optimized IP NGN architecture, for service providers that, together with the Cisco CRS-1: Delivers emerging large-scale IP broadcast video services with the availability and reliability that ensures an... [25 Mar 2008]
Moving SaaS/On-Demand From Dream to Successful Reality
White Paper IT and network integration challenges, exacerbated by the lack of understanding of the "Transformational elements" and the lack of realization of core competencies, have produced more SaaS failures than successes to date. [12 Mar 2008]
Introduction to Virtualization Technology
White Paper In simple terms, a well-designed virtualization solution combines the right servers (often blade servers), storage devices, and virtualization software to reduce the number of server boxes, mitigate possible hardware... [01 Mar 2008]
Spiralling costs derail £500m offender-tracking system
News Socitm VP Steve Hopson told silicon.com: "I would describe it as embarrassing, it is not good for the image of the profession which is unfairly criticised because of a few high profile failures. Prisons minister, David... [09 Jan 2008]
HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring Integration White Paper
White Paper This localized availability allows protection against individual failures at multiple levels, including the SQL Server instance, individual hardware components, the physical server, or the infrastructure which is relied... [09 Jan 2008]
Shanghai Distance Education Group Brings High Quality Learning to the Masses
White Paper The move to a grid computing environment ensures hardware failures do not affect system operation, and reduces total cost of ownership by enabling SDEG to use low-cost commodity servers and open source... [06 Nov 2007]
New Branch-Management Technology Helps Citizens Bank Sharpen Customer Focus
White Paper Oracle database cluster technology forms the heart of Citizens' branch-banking system, keeping the applications and underlying database running around the clock and providing protection against machine... [30 Oct 2007]
PC Hacks: Detect Drive Failure Before It Happens
White Paper Roughly 60% of all disk drive failures are mechanical in nature - from spindle-bearing wear to read/write heads banging into delicate disk platters - and now technology built into the drives can report... [17 Oct 2007]
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