technology failures
Dynamic Processor Deallocation and Dynamic Processor Resilience
White Paper The purpose of this white paper is to provide an overview of an exciting new technology that Hewlett Packard has developed that can significantly reduce system downtime due to processor failures. This... [25 Feb 2004]
Why do public sector projects fail?
Comment Paul Bentham goes through the hows and whys of those failures and calls on public sector technology teams to make the necessary strategic changes that should ensure future success. The fact that public... [24 Jul 2007]
Fault-Tolerant Support for Reliable Multicast in Mobile Wireless Systems
White Paper The protocol tolerates failures in the wired infrastructure, i.e.crashes of stationary hosts and partitions of wired links. This paper evaluates by simulation the impact of fault-tolerance on the performance of the... [01 Aug 2007]
PC Hacks: Detect Drive Failure Before It Happens
White Paper Roughly 60% of all disk drive failures are mechanical in nature - from spindle-bearing wear to read/write heads banging into delicate disk platters - and now technology built into the drives can report... [17 Oct 2007]
Online share trader announces IBM deal
News The firm has been criticised for losing investors' money through computer failures and down time. The company believes this will improve it's ability to deal with site failures and variations in user... [17 Jun 1999]
VERITAS Database Edition for Oracle: Guidelines for Using Storage Checkpoint and Storage Rollback With Oracle Databases
White Paper VERITAS Storage Checkpoint and Storage Rollback make up an innovative solution designed to recover from logical failures with minimum down time. This paper will examine how to use this solution to help recover from... [10 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Why does technology fail?
Comment Some generally unseen mechanisms can often lead to a cascade of technology failures as well. Ergo multiple and near simultaneous failures are to be expected - they actually have been... [21 Jan 2005]
"Political pressures" override government IT safety checks
News Political pressures and a lack of IT and project management skills are responsible for the high number of government IT failures, according to a new report. As the OGC checks and other government initiatives were only... [11 Aug 2003]
Government IT gets 'unfair' kicking
News Sir Peter Gershon said that such projects are quietly delivering greater efficiency across the public sector, despite the enormous publicity given to failures. It's just that we live in a country where the press... [07 Feb 2005]
The predicament of the IT manager, IBM's last Olympics and Germany's e-growth
Comment Unsurprisingly, IT managers often carry the responsibility for these failures. The list of potential causes for such outages is almost limitless and includes software sugs (cited by a majority of companies), software... [02 Oct 2000]
Opinion: The importance of failure
Comment Marketing is evaluated not on its failures but rather by the sum of its successes. I believe organisations should embrace a culture that supports innovation by evaluating its IT department on the sum of its successes... [01 Feb 2006]
Y2K refusing to die, Bluetooth lurching forward, and top secret Ginger getting hyped
Comment This is in some ways the most alarming of the failures in that it suggests there may be many such inadequate fixes out there in various systems: time bombs ticking away merrily until their time comes. [14 Jan 2001]
Ebusiness Despatches: Leading and learning from failure
Comment More importantly, they are not open about their failures. Many in the rising tide of dot-com failures are replicating the mistakes of the previous 12 months. Finally, I was up in Scotland working with... [25 Jul 2001]
100 Million Reasons Why Architecture Matters
White Paper Today, when we consider the successes and failures of the technology industry, the perspective must be an architectural one. Technology itself cannot be viewed on its own, nor even in... [25 Feb 2004]
Simple Disaster Recovery of FileNet on Windows: Image Services Using SnapMirror Technology
White Paper Global enterprises need to protect and quickly recover data in the event of natural or man-made disasters, operator errors, or technology and application failures. Using SnapMirror... [31 Aug 2007]
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