downtime in news
RSS downtime in newsUK companies: Leaking like a sieve?
News Network downtime occurs in 24 per cent of companies, application crashes in 30 per cent and slowing of applications in 27 per cent, the study also discovered. Most UK companies are losing data every month a survey has found. [12 May 2008]
Criminals posing as police burgle Verizon data centre
News At the time of writing, Verizon could not confirm the value of the equipment stolen or whether any of its clients had suffered downtime or loss of data due to the incident. The theft was undertaken at 21:17(GMT) on Thursday when between three and... [10 Dec 2007]
Businesses warned over consumer tech 'bargains'
News According to Gartner, consumer systems undergo less rigorous testing which leads to failure rates up to 50 per cent higher than business versions, leading to greater repair costs and downtime. Businesses have been warned they risk higher costs if... [03 Dec 2007]
Financial institutions hurt by homegrown tech?
News UK financial services organisations are being hit by downtime because of a reliance on homegrown applications, a survey has claimed. According to a survey of 103 IT managers and senior leaders in the retail banking, investment banking and insurance... [23 Oct 2007]
Revealed: World's hottest wi-fi spots
News Business travellers making the most of downtime at airports and hotels accounted for more than five out of every six wi-fi sessions globally, with airport usage making up 56 per cent and hotels 30 per cent of all sessions. [20 Sep 2007]
Fifa kicks off improved web services
News Fifa's head of IT, Michael Kelly, added tournaments "cannot afford even a second's downtime, even during the huge usage spikes throughout games". The world football association, Fifa, has signed two deals with Indian tech services company Satyam... [03 Aug 2007]
BlackBerrys and PDAs bad for work/life balance
News A recent survey by RIM found an average BlackBerry user converts one hour of downtime to productive time each day and ups their overall team efficiency by 38 per cent. The technology both increases output by enabling what would otherwise be... [18 Jul 2007]
BlackBerrys users bursting with time and cost savings
News The average BlackBerry user converts one hour of downtime to productive time each day, which equates to an extra 250 hours per user per year in recovered downtime, research has claimed. Read all about IT… [04 Jul 2007]
Linux web servers "faster"
News WatchMouse also noted that, overall, two-thirds of the websites it surveyed had an availability of less than 99.9 per cent, representing downtime of at least eight hours per year. Linux-based websites perform better than those hosted on Windows... [21 Jun 2007]
In Brief: Apple gets social, YouTube goes mobile, Yahoo! upholds censorship and IT disappoints
News And around half of IT managers in large companies said downtime is a serious problem for their organisation. Apple is expected to announce a deal today to sell iTunes music through the Bebo social networking site, according to the FT - its first... [13 Jun 2007]
Switch to Vista? It's a headache, say IT chiefs
News The research also shows IT staff are concerned about post migration issues such as downtime - leading to loss of productivity - and user questions about personal settings or applications wasting support staff time. [05 Jun 2007]
Virgin trains kitted out with mobile signal boosters
News For businesses, access to mobile email and information offers greater productivity and less downtime while travelling away from the office. Virgin's cross-country trains are being fitted with equipment that will boost mobile signals. [16 May 2007]
Thus lands £11m contract to wire up students
News If an institution needs extra bandwidth the Ethernet infrastructure - called LMN3 - can also increase its capacity to 80Gbps at short notice and without the need for downtime. Thus has signed an £11.3m five-year contract with educational network... [24 Apr 2007]
Data centres struggle to keep their cool
News But with the increased demand, the lead time for new equipment can be up to 18 months, putting firms at risk of experiencing data centre downtime. A data centre crisis is brewing as energy supply and cooling technology struggle to keep pace with... [12 Apr 2007]
Easynet fixes email outage
News Customers of the ISP's POP3 email services suffered downtime and delays from 23 January until last Friday. She said typical downtime for affected customers was around an hour. Easynet has finally resolved a series of national email outages which... [05 Feb 2007]
