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Are your systems falling down on resiliency?
Comment Given those facts, why are so many organisations gambling with software systems availability? Research has shown repeatedly that organisations rank IT high on their list of business risks. The level of software failure is likely to remain high... [12 Aug 2008]
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. While at the other end would be those suppliers - such as traditional ERP vendors - offering... [16 Jun 2008]
What scores in the global tech league?
Comment Criteria such as education, language skills, availability of talent, government support, and intellectual property protection all get factored into the choice of where companies are locating their back office or shared service centre. [03 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars
Comment Their reward was a quick war, a good decision, and more bandwidth availability. We already see super high definition formats such as SHD and SHD 3D being developed and demonstrated, with some initial roll-out with Blu-ray in new cinema complexes. [17 Mar 2008]
Itanium revisited - one year on
Comment To be fair, the new processor does contain a new RAS (reliability, availability and serviceability) feature called Core Level Lock-Step. Despite a high-profile launch, HP and Intel's Itanium chip has failed to make much of a splash. [13 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gripes, naked PCs, geek rage, nuclear fallout...
Comment If Microsoft stick to their position of Vista or nothing then, as availability of XP dries up, all they will do is proliferate unlicenced copies of XP. Demand for XP is so high that ebay prices have increased for XP packs with a Certificate of... [27 Sep 2007]
Minority Report: Macs gaining enterprise cred
Comment Other factors which have appeared over the last two years to endear Macs to the IT department include the arrival of Intel chips, Boot Camp or third-party virtualisation tools which allow Macs to run Windows and the availability of Office and open... [19 Jul 2007]
Rorie Devine
CIO Profile Scalability and availability are the two big challenges for Devine and his team at a fast-growing and high-transaction business. Rorie Devine is CTO of Betfair, one of the UK's fastest growing and most innovative online companies. [06 Jun 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment With this, all kinds of solutions - high availability, disaster recovery, consolidated back-up - become possible and enable the next generation computing environment: the optimised data centre. Quocirca's Dennis Szubert explains the many uses of... [15 May 2007]
Brampton Factor: Network convergence is no simple task
Comment Very high standards are expected for telephony, which has typically operated to extremely high levels of availability, sometimes in the absence of mains power. Traffic has typically been added piecemeal over a long period and much data... [17 Apr 2007]
Supply chains go on-demand
Comment There are many drivers for the take-up of such services including the switch to a monthly service subscription rather than having to make upfront investments, reduction of management overheads, a simplified user experience and higher availability... [04 Apr 2007]
Indian offshoring - the new worry
Comment A further example of how India is changing is the availability and price of good hotels close to where people want to do business. Nasscom - which stands for National Association of Software and Service Companies - represents about 95 per cent of... [14 Feb 2007]
Confessions of a CrackBerry addict
Comment In accepting the benefits of 24x7 availability I realise I've lost something equally valuable. I've discovered during the summer while I've been building up Airads, my aviation business, that the device is quite invaluable in the cockpit as long as... [14 Sep 2006]
Leader: Business travel tech - a good thing?
Leader One juror also pointed out that because of increased availability of internet access in airports and hotel rooms, it's becoming harder and harder to take a break even when travelling on holiday. Thus it's no surprise that our coverage on technology... [01 Jun 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wi-fi activism
Comment Before I arrived my PA had already checked out the availability of high-speed wi-fi access here and 20 minutes ago I looked all set to get some work done. Written in the lobby of a nice new London hotel that shall remain nameless, and despatched... [29 Mar 2006]
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