availability in comment and analysis
Bangalore blooming into innovation hothouse
Comment Certain skills such as user interface design and product architecture are of limited availability. Years ago, when the world pictured Bangalore they imagined an outsourcing hub full of call centre agents and... [27 Nov 2009]
How CIOs can achieve post-recession success
Comment Chui: Some of the things that were identified [in our research] are increasing uncertainty, lower availability on credit, potentially lower consumer spending in certain areas and more public sector involvement in the... [18 Nov 2009]
Outsourcing - how to make sure it's reliable
Comment Equally, you may be tempted to set parameters that look good on paper (i.e.per cent availability) but that are unachievable, immeasurable or prohibitively expensive. For example in an IT infrastructure system,... [19 Oct 2009]
Cloud vendor shakeup on the horizon
Comment Microsoft Azure (and .NET Services), which is kind of a hybrid approach somewhere between Amazon EC2 (cloud system infrastructure) and Google App Engine (APaaS), will hit general availability sometime soon. [01 Sep 2009]
Bill Gates: 'We're going to make the cows that don't fart'
Comment But I always had in the back of my mind that it was kind of a crime that there wasn't broad availability of those things, particularly for young people thinking about science. Technology brings more to the lecture... [16 Jul 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: We have plenty of radio spectrum
Comment So in this total signal space up to 100GHz there is an unused availability of 70 to 80 per cent. Given our overriding interest in the signal space up to 30GHz we would see an even greater availability... [09 Jun 2009]
Marc Earl
CIO Profile He is also leading efforts to improve stability and availability of technology across the business. Marc Earl has 26 years of experience in the financial industry and as CIO of Deutsche Bank has responsibility for... [03 Jun 2009]
Darrell Stein
CIO Profile Service levels have also flourished on Stein's watch with M&S gaining its highest-level till availability yet this year - at 97.7 per cent. Darrell Stein is IT & logistics director at Marks & Spencer - joining the... [01 Jun 2009]
10 questions to ask before building a datacentre
Comment How much availability do I really need? Datacentres are generally defined by tier level, which essentially dictate the availability (up-time) goals for the environment. While industry standard TIA 942 is... [30 Apr 2009]
Mobile operators: It's time to get personal
Comment Sub-groups of premium spenders, for instance, are much more interested in the availability and range of value-added services than in cheap minutes, even in a downturn. The recession is making life harder than ever for... [31 Mar 2009]
Doing away with printer headaches
Comment This can not only drive service and maintenance-based revenues for the vendor and its channel partners but also improve device uptime and availability for the user. Though not the sexiest hardware, printers are a key... [07 Jan 2009]
Legacy IT holding back insurers
Comment Modern languages such as .NET or Java offer many benefits to the IT department, not least being the availability of individuals with the skills to support these technologies. In fact, legacy code and applications should... [16 Dec 2008]
Why are IT systems so unreliable?
Comment What's more, a quick glance at the chart below shows they fail far more frequently than one might expect in today's 'high availability' environments. One thing that is clear is that service disruptions also occur as a... [04 Dec 2008]
Minority Report: Macs threatened by virus terror?
Comment Or fourthly, it might just be an update to an old web page to reflect the availability of Mac antivirus programs - two of which are sold at the Apple Store (one from Symantec and one from Intego). Is Apple pushing... [03 Dec 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: What next for mobile email?
Comment In many emerging markets the availability of computers is more limited than that of mobile phones, and email on the move then has the potential to become a more interesting proposition for the mass market. [16 Oct 2008]
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