equipment failures
2010: When IT budgets start to grow again
News But as IT bosses shy away from replacing servers, printers and the like and extend refresh cycles for an extra year, they may be running the risk of equipment failures that could affect the business. If... [20 Oct 2009]
Cooling Strategies for IT Wiring Closets and Small Rooms
White Paper Cooling for IT wiring closets is rarely planned and typically only implemented after failures or overheating occur. An appropriate specification for cooling IT wiring closets should assure compatibility with anticipated... [01 Oct 2009]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Business Critical Data Management
White Paper Business continuity depends upon the ready availability of data, even in the face of equipment failures and other disaster scenarios. While the dollar cost of data recovery is high, it is dwarfed by the... [05 Aug 2009]
Maximum Availability: Minimum Downtime
White Paper Keeping below the point of diminished return, there is no way to produce hardware that is incapable of failure, there is a way to minimize, if not eliminate, the downtime, stress, and frustration associated with these... [10 Jul 2009]
Ask the Experts: Should I embrace the cloud?
Comment Better security, scalability, use of resources, control of data access and recovery from catastrophic failures The second question is: what kind of equipment have you invested in, and how many people do... [08 Apr 2009]
Enabling the Reliability Centered Maintenance process with IBM Maximo Asset Management
White Paper It is an advanced maintenance strategy for increasing asset availability by minimizing downtime caused by failures, reducing an asset's total cost of ownership and increasing overall equipment... [18 Mar 2009]
Corporate IT at risk from knocked-off electronics
News However, failures attributed to counterfeit parts often go undetected, according to Rogowski, due to the costs associated with tracing faults to component level. When they are finding their way into critical systems such... [28 Jan 2009]
Managing Routing Disruptions in Internet Service Provider Networks
White Paper Unfortunately, routine events such as equipment failures or planned maintenance cause routing changes, which may lead to transient service disruptions or persistent performance problems. Customers of... [28 Nov 2008]
Intel: Fresh air route to data centre cost slashing
News The paper said: "Servers.were subjected to considerable variation in temperature and humidity, as well as poor air quality; however, there was no significant increase in server failures. Despite a lot of dust and major... [19 Sep 2008]
Google bigs up 'white space' wireless plans
News Executive vice president Dennis Wharton said in a statement: "Given the numerous device failures that have resulted during FCC testing, it seems a little disingenuous for Mr Page to simply dismiss the interference concerns. [23 May 2008]
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]
The Brampton Factor: Chinese whispers
Comment But anecdotal evidence suggests that the number of items shipped with faults that either prevent them working at all, or result in early failures, has increased sharply. It seems impossible to come by reliable data on... [25 Oct 2007]
Call for e-voting to be scrapped amid security fears
News Privacy campaigners have called for any further e-voting trials to be scrapped after uncovering evidence of poor security, inadequate audit trails, equipment failures and an over-dependence on technology... [25 Jun 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: NGNs - real or imaginary?
Comment Hard-wired interconnections are replaced by programmability, all of the copper network weaknesses such as water ingress and people-induced failures are eradicated. My first (personal) experience of a NGN came with the... [02 May 2007]
To outsource or not to outsource?
Comment David Heyes, head of supplier and IT services management at Somerfield, said: "We had a number of high-profile failures and the board recognised we were trying to do too much with our resources. Network outsourcers can... [16 Apr 2007]
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