software failure
RSS software failureMaximizing Data Center Uptime With Business Continuity Planning
White Paper There is a higher probability that most data centers will be affected by a virus, hardware failure, power failure or upgrade gone wrong than by a disastrous weather-related event like wind, fire or rain. [13 Nov 2009]
Photos: Firefox through the ages
Photo Some considered the Netscape-era software to be a bloated failure. While the official Mozilla effort still was working on the unified browser and email software package dating back to... [10 Nov 2009]
UK software industry - alive and kicking
News Holway said the UK's failure to produce a global software giant like Microsoft or Oracle is largely due to a lack of financial backing. The UK software industry is alive and kicking -... [23 Oct 2009]
Implementing DHCP Redundancy to Sustain Critical Operations - DHCP Redundancy: Choosing Between the Split-Scopes and Alcatel-Lucent Failover DHCP Configurations
White Paper IP network administrators are understandably concerned with providing redundancy in the event of the failure or inaccessibility of their frontline Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) servers. Customers who use... [02 Oct 2009]
Yankee Group: Software as a Service Dramatically Improves CRM Success
White Paper This Yankee Group report uncovers the voice of enterprise users so that companies can buck the CRM failure rate with a clear understanding of how new on-demand services and technologies can overcome user reluctance and... [28 Sep 2009]
Impact of Unlicensed Software on Mid-Market Companies
White Paper This paper explores this trade-off and concludes that companies with unlicensed software do not have lower IT spend, but may incur far greater risk of system failure, data loss and employee discontent. [16 Sep 2009]
Datacentres: The temples of IT
Comment Their huge halls house rack upon rack of equipment and feature seemingly endless corridors, spotless cleanliness, fortress-like physical security and resilience to power failure - all managed by just a handful of employees. [08 Sep 2009]
Google says sorry for Gmail's two-hour outage: Blames 'miscalculation'
News Several Google Apps customers who use Gmail for internal email at their businesses and organisations did not return calls Tuesday seeking information on the degree to which they were affected, making it difficult to know the magnitude of... [02 Sep 2009]
Replication Failover-Failback for Oracle 11g on HP Integrity with HP XP24000 Continuous Access
White Paper The insight and understanding of the major considerations presented in this solution, along with knowing what to do before, during, and after recovery from a failure, are keys to the successful deployment of a... [02 Sep 2009]
Five Steps to Better BI System Management: Understanding Your BI System to Resolve Issues and Adapt to Change
White Paper Out of tune, it can become an immediate distraction, a critical failure, or worse, something deemed untrustworthy by users. IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) software provides capabilities for IT... [01 Sep 2009]
SQL Server Data Recovery Made Easy With Idera SQLsafe: Innovative Features Help DBAs Recover From Disaster Faster Than Ever Before
White Paper When a database goes down due to hardware or software failure, data corruption, or any number of other causes, every minute of downtime can mean serious money lost. Let's face it, one lives in a world... [30 Aug 2009]
Rethinking Business Continuance: Driving Data Availability Up and Costs Down
White Paper Many potential reasons for failure can cause business critical applications to go offline and endanger a company's viability. HP LeftHand P4000 SANs provide continuous storage availability across storage system, rack,... [30 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Digital TV too annoying to watch?
Comment Unlike analogue systems, digital has 'cliff-like' failure characteristics. Some are natural and unavoidable within the system-design specification and the laws of physics, but for sure, many are down to poor... [11 Aug 2009]
Why it's still tough to find a good CIO
Comment Failure is expected within the IT function: software projects get under specified and are too expensive; ERP implementations get delivered late; infrastructure is not maintained and falls over and... [06 Aug 2009]
Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows: Dynamic Multi-Pathing Competitive Comparisons
White Paper The software manages failover between the I/O paths, thus eliminating the potential for a single point of failure. Multi-pathing software provides the intelligence necessary to manage... [05 Aug 2009]
