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Off the peg or tailor made?
Comment Services that exist in the cloud outside company boundaries make users worry about stability, availability and robustness of hosted applications. They also question the long-term implications of running critical business applications that are very... [16 Jun 2008]
Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century
Comment The availability of this prime communications spectrum is one of the biggest band grabs of the century heralding "truly next-generation advanced wireless services", according to FCC chairman Kevin Martin. [17 Dec 2007]
Who pays your broadband bill?
Comment Some of the risks can be reduced if businesses take an active interest in the specification, cost and availability of domestic broadband services on offer to their employees. The remote employee might be using other business critical applications... [21 Aug 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Choosing Desktop Linux
Comment Application availability and compatibility, the biggest single issue with Desktop Linux today, could in many cases continue to constrain choice and impact the ability for IT to support the business optimally. [14 Apr 2005]
Devil's Advocate: VoIP not for everyone
Comment Voice networks have commonly been wholly powered from central points, with substantial battery and generator backup to maintain extremely high levels of availability. Ordinary telephones are frequently business-critical and sometimes safety-critical. [13 Dec 2004]
How CIOs mitigate VoIP's risks
Comment He said: "You can mitigate the single point of failure by investing in high availability resilient network switches and telecom techniques. If anything, convergence means that voice traffic will benefit from the de facto resilience of data networks... [09 Sep 2004]
The Ovum View: DRM - protecting content and revenues
Comment Understandably, perhaps, content providers are now taking extreme measures to protect their content by limiting its availability. This business model is unsustainable and greater collaboration is required between the players. [10 Jul 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Executive e-learning, Sun's future and Sybase's AvantGo
Comment Much was made of the security features that have been designed into the operating system, along with its scalability and availability. This experience may have been gained through a structured business environment with complimentary learning... [07 Mar 2003]
Analyst advice: How to choose an app server
Comment Classic enterprise features such as high availability, scalability, transactional integrity, security and manageability will be of course important criteria along with standards support (J2EE, web services, XML etc). [10 Jun 2002]
Devil's Advocate: C'mon, c'mon, let's work together
Comment As a result, there is widespread availability of applications for PC Linux. That is now recognised to be impossible, yet there is immense pressure to integrate systems to support business processes such as customer service initiatives. [06 Nov 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: m-banking opportunities, three-day weeks revisited and Amazon in the dock
Comment One thing is for sure, the need for cash is becoming less and so will its availability. In Germany, Fridays are moving towards being recognised as a half day and in the high-tech companies of California where attracting and retaining the right... [09 Apr 2001]
The best of 'Reader Comments': Killer ASPs and India's IT resources
Comment If a company is really worried about availability then why not use a leased line/VPN and the internet? Until meaningful QoS implementations are available over the public net and through private corporate WANs, ASPs can't deliver anything close to... [10 Nov 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: NT clusters, open source in healthcare and Bezos' brand new dilemma
Comment There has been a well-recognised discrepancy between the actual availability delivered by popular platforms such as NT and the increasing dependency of business models on very high levels of uninterrupted service. [10 Apr 2000]
Transatlantic Cable: is Silicon Valley ready for Y2K?
Comment Therefore, you'll see plenty of Web sites with phrases like, "We have diligently taken steps to implement a smooth transition and to ensure the continued availability of (whatever the company does) through and after January 1, 2000. [23 Nov 1999]
The Bloor Perspective: The cost of downtime, the perils of patents and more on eprocurement
Comment Continuous availability technology is available in the form of fault-tolerant hardware, Unix clusters and mainframes which can all show an impressive number of 9s in the availability percentage. If it is not cost-effective for an organisation to... [14 Nov 1999]
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