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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]
Do you know what's happening on your network?
Comment The management of network availability and downtime came a close second, cited as 'critical' by 62 per cent of respondents. According to recent Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) research, security is seen as the most critical element of network... [28 Mar 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Choosing Desktop Linux
Comment Software availability and compatibility issues 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... [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. There is a good deal of interest in using low-cost broadband services for the... [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. Converged network is far too risky to rely on for telephony, especially in life-critical areas like hospitals. [09 Sep 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Overwhelmed by data
Comment After all, when we talk about the availability of servers, what we really mean is often the availability of data. Mostly it is much more effective to have only a single master copy of any set of data and that is the resource that needs to sustain... [21 Oct 2003]
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. But it is critical that mobile operators work with content providers to gain their confidence in the mobile channel if... [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. With the need for better corporate governance and transparent accounting methods becoming critical in today's... [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. This is the critical condition for shrink-wrapped software. One of the hardest parts of IT is getting all the bits to work together. [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]
Worth waiting for? Oftel seizes the initiative
Comment The answer to emerge from the meeting is for BT to bring forward the availability of these sought after exchanges in urban areas. Oftel wanted to find out why other operators - long critical of BT's protective stance towards the local loop lines... [18 Jan 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]
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