outage
Email as Part of a Business Continuity Strategy: Why Always-On Business Requires Always-On Email
White Paper Few businesses could function without email, and email provides a critical coordination tool during an outage, yet due to the cost and complexity of providing true email continuity many businesses do not have business... [13 Nov 2009]
Syncsort Backup Express and NetApp: Advanced Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
White Paper Within minutes of an outage or disaster, applications, databases and users can be accessing data and resuming business. Coupling NetApp's SnapMirror and SnapVault technology with Syncsort's Backup Express (BEX) software... [13 Nov 2009]
T-Mobile's Sidekick data: All may not be lost
News Users of T-Mobile's Sidekick had been told the lost data - which included contacts, calendars and other information - may be gone for good after the server outage last week, but T-Mobile said last night "prospects of... [13 Oct 2009]
IT Service Management Metrics Metrics That Matter: Four Key Benchmarks for Improving IT Performance
White Paper They have integrated those processes and controls into how they manage almost every aspect of their daily work, helping them achieve their business goals and find variance before it causes a catastrophic outage, failed... [06 Oct 2009]
Preventing Data Corruption in the Event of an Extended Power Outage
White Paper Despite advances in computer technology, power outages continue to be a major cause of PC and server downtime. Protecting computer systems with Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) hardware is part of a total solution, but power management... [01 Oct 2009]
Google says sorry for Gmail's two-hour outage: Blames 'miscalculation'
News Google Gmail suffered nearly a two-hour outage on Tuesday, which was the result of a miscalculation regarding the capacity of its system, the company said late on Tuesday. Thus, right up front, I'd like to apologise to... [02 Sep 2009]
Considerations in HP StorageWorks XP Cluster Extension Configurations to Stop Automatic XP CA Disk Pair Resynchronization When CA Link Is Suspended
White Paper This improves availability by providing disaster tolerance in case of core component failures such as storage systems and site disasters like fire, power outage, and even larger natural disasters. HP StorageWorks XP... [02 Sep 2009]
BMC Best Practice Process Flow for Event Management
White Paper For each of these incident requests, the operations manager first determines whether or not an event was generated to notify the service provider organization of the outage. The operations manager periodically reviews... [30 Aug 2009]
Deploying Mirror Activator With EMC Storage
White Paper Ensuring system and database availability with zero data loss achievable in the event of a system outage for Sybase and Oracle. The presenter of this webcast will provide overview of EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility... [29 Aug 2009]
Preprocessing DNS Log Data for Effective Data Mining
White Paper When problems occur in capturing log data, or when the DNS server experiences an outage (scheduled or unscheduled), the normal pattern of traffic for that server becomes clouded. The Domain Name Service (DNS) provides a... [29 Aug 2009]
Botnet finds a home on Twitter
News While other services like Facebook and the Google-owned Blogger were also hit by the attack, Twitter was the only one to suffer a full-out, hours-long outage, and it called into question just how secure the service... [17 Aug 2009]
AMI and Beyond: How Wireless Broadband Enables the Smart Grid Today and Tomorrow
White Paper These include more cost-effective backhaul of AMI data, delivery of sophisticated energy management/control programs and real-time connectivity within the utility to help improve service delivery, outage management and... [15 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.08.09
Round-Up Surely they had most to gain by a Twitter outage lasting hours - presumably one that caused a massive productivity jump in workplaces around the world as office workers had to find some real work to do instead of... [14 Aug 2009]
Twitter goes down as another attack hits
News We're working to recover from a site outage and will update as we learn more. This outage was particularly notable because it happens as Twitter is still reeling from a denial-of-service attack last week... [12 Aug 2009]
Was Twitter, Facebook denial-of-service the result of attack on a single account?
News A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites... [07 Aug 2009]