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z/OS 1.8 Coupling Facility Resource Management Performance Enhancements

whitepaper The ability to have surviving systems recover rapidly for a failed system, and to recover Coupling Facility (CF) structures after a failure are key elements to achieving high availability in the sysplex environment.

Tags: high availability

[16 May 2008]

Open source: UK dragging its heels

News The UK government has failed to support open source both as a user and in policies to offer citizen access, Taylor said. The UK is lagging in the use of open source, even though it is now established as the best way to produce and consume software...

Tags: europe, uk, open source

[15 May 2008]

HiTech Telecom Streamlines Workflows, Ensures Future Growth With Scalable Billing Application

whitepaper As its business grew, HiTech Telecom found that its billing applications continually failed to scale to meet its requirements and also imposed unwelcome complexity. HiTech Telecom is a privately held Australian organization that offers a wide range...

Tags: accounting applications, telecom, carriers, streamline

[15 May 2008]

Put New Capabilities of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to Work, Part 5: Managing Failed and Unrecoverable Events With IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.1

whitepaper The WebSphere Business Monitor 6.1 enhanced, integrated administrative console lets one administer failed events. In this paper, learn how to troubleshoot and manage failed and unrecoverable events for business monitor model applications.

Tags: monitoring systems, failed, events, monitor

[14 May 2008]

School District Adopts New File Backup System, Expects to Save $100,000

whitepaper But even when files were recorded properly, tapes often failed. The San Francisco Unified School District needed a reliable method for backing up important files. The district had used tape backups, which relied on schools to manually change tapes...

Tags: monitoring systems

[14 May 2008]

Public Sector Service Achieves 100 Per Cent Uptime for Business Critical Messaging Server

whitepaper Since Exchange Server 2003 went live at COPFS, it has never failed. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) in Scotland provides an independent public-prosecution and deaths-investigation service.

Tags: monitoring systems

[14 May 2008]

Show and Tell: Combining Pictures and Words to Create Full Project Management Capability

whitepaper Ineffective or failed project delivery is the bane of every IT user and tales of budget overruns, cancellations and time lags are legion. Requirements Definition (RD) and Requirements Management (RM) are at the center of successful project...

Tags: methodology

[09 May 2008]

Microsoft making a move on Facebook?

News Microsoft gauged Facebook's interest in a possible acquisition after the software giant's failed takeover attempt of Yahoo! the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The newspaper reported on its website that Microsoft's bankers put out subtle...

Tags: facebook, yahoo, microsoft

[08 May 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security

Comment Others like Tumbleweed and Proofpoint, having failed to establish a strong presence in Europe first time around, reckon they can make more of a mark with a renewed focus. But before splashing out on content security, CIOs should take a good look at...

Tags: filtering, spam, content

[02 May 2008]

Microsoft board meets over Yahoo! - but no decisions

News over its takeover bid but failed to reach a decision on what to do next, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Microsoft's board met yesterday to discuss its stand-off with Yahoo! Microsoft's board of directors is still weighing whether to...

Tags: bid, microsoft, yahoo

[01 May 2008]

Are we losing the security war?

Comment But an observer from another planet might be forgiven for asking why, after all this time, the security industry and world governments between them have failed to deliver any sure-fire solutions for dealing with a global problem - beyond throwing...

Tags: security, e-crime, cyber crime

[29 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! reports positive profits - Microsoft unconcerned

News posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit yesterday but failed to deliver the outstanding results its shareholders hoped might force Microsoft to raise its takeover bid. Yahoo! Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer had signalled before the...

Tags: profit, microsoft, yahoo

[23 Apr 2008]

Naked CIO: The true cost of IT

Comment It is an ongoing concern and one that IT departments at large have failed to solve. It's all very well trying to put price tags on everything the IT department does. The trouble is you end up knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing...

Tags: value, cost allocation, projects, departments

[21 Apr 2008]

Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards

News The post acknowledges that "technically savvy users" see Linux as a practical alternative but says this is not enough to build a sustainable business around the Linux desktop: "History is littered with example efforts that have either failed...

Tags: linux, red hat, microsoft, eye

[21 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.04.08

Round-Up Meanwhile, your configuration management officer has fouled up again, your load balancing test has gone bad and the security patch for your entire desktop range has failed. This week - a chance to help write your own gags for the Round-Up.

Tags: microsoft, windows, google, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'

Comment And if you don't believe that, look at the number of failed attempts to bring in longer detention for suspected terrorists, they will keep hammering away at that until the next election so don't expect them to drop the NIR and ID card scheme either.

Tags: file-sharers, home office, women

[17 Apr 2008]

Editor's Blog: Signs of terminal decline at T5?

Comment Execs I would talk to would segue from the woes at T5 to why their own company had failed to finish this or that project. It's a small claim to fame, I know, but I was one of the passengers who flew from the newly opened Heathrow Terminal 5 last...

Tags: project, t5, ba

[16 Apr 2008]

The Naked CIO: Crunch time for large projects

Comment It would be wrong to trivialise failed projects, because we all need to do more to ensure they don't recur. So knowing when to delay or cancel a project is just as important as giving it the green light, says the Naked CIO.

Tags: testing, measuring value, failure, projects

[14 Apr 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Using Windows Event Logging to Enhance Compliance and Security (Level 200)

whitepaper This data provides with an accurate picture of failed attempts to log on, changes to the status of accounts and privileges, and accounts that have been misused or locked out. The event logs in Microsoft Windows contain crucial information about the...

Tags: security standards

[11 Apr 2008]

United States Immigration Law in a World of Terror

whitepaper Immediately after the attacks, the news media filled with reports that the terrorists had entered the United States on student visas, Immigration & Naturalization ("INS") border officials and State Department consular officers had failed to screen...

Tags: network security, united states, attacks, failed

[10 Apr 2008]

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