technology failures
Scalability of Network-Failure Resilience
White Paper This work quantifies scalability of network resilience upon failures. It characterize resilience as the percentage of lost traffic upon failures and define scalability as the growth rate of the percentage of lost traffic with respect to network... [11 Jul 2008]
Dynamic Load Balancing Without Packet Reordering
White Paper Dynamic load balancing is a popular recent technique that protects ISP networks from sudden congestion caused by load spikes or link failures. Dynamic load balancing protocols, however, require schemes for splitting traffic across multiple paths at... [10 Jul 2008]
Virtualization and Disk Performance
White Paper This accelerated build-up leads to severe problems such as freezes, hangs, crashes and even system failures. Virtualization marks the next evolution in data storage technology. This white paper analyzes the virtual machine, performance-threatening... [07 Jul 2008]
Towards an Agent Framework for Grid Computing
White Paper As opposed to existing approaches, agent technology promises a more flexible approach, easier installation and management of the agent framework, and better ability to autonomously recover from failures. [03 Jul 2008]
The Next Step in Virtualization: - Ditch the LUN! (Part 1 of 2)
White Paper In addition, it creates an environment fraught with space failures, performance bottlenecks, and application restarts. There have been some great innovations introduced in storage networking technology over the years, some more significant than... [30 Jun 2008]
Google bigs up 'white space' wireless plans
News Executive vice president Dennis Wharton said in a statement: "Given the numerous device failures that have resulted during FCC testing, it seems a little disingenuous for Mr Page to simply dismiss the interference concerns. [23 May 2008]
Power Struggle: How IT Managers Cope With Data Center Power Demands and the Raptor Solution
White Paper The primary goals for data center operators are to save power costs and cool the systems to prevent heat-induced failures, expand data center space without straining the company budget every time an expansion occurs and plan a distributed data... [26 Apr 2008]
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 logical failures in an Oracle... [10 Apr 2008]
How and Why Mission-Critical Cooling Systems Differ From Common Air Conditioners
White Paper Standard comfort air conditioning is ill suited for technology rooms, leading to system shutdowns and component failures. Today's technology rooms require precise, stable environments in order for sensitive electronics to operate optimally. [10 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Clusters, High Availability & Extending Protection Offsite: Understanding the Options
White Paper Companies need to ensure that they are protected from failures such as network outages, power loss, natural disasters, or even data corruption. This webcast will give the listener a technical overview of how XOsoft's HA solution can provide a... [10 Apr 2008]
Five Ways to Reduce Costs for Batch Processing
White Paper Fortunately, infrastructure management technology provides alternatives to upgrades; alternatives that deliver more consistent and better batch performance, without the cost impact of repeated upgrades or the business impact of service failures. [03 Apr 2008]
Replication Best Practices for Oracle 10g With ASM & EVA8000
White Paper When properly configured and deployed, they are capable of providing a timely recovery from a variety of failures, up to and including the loss of an entire datacenter site. For this report the authors have distilled information from well-known... [28 Mar 2008]
Smooth Transition From SAP 4.7 to ECC 5.0 in Eleven Countries With Automated Regression Testing Resulting in Significant Time and Cost Savings for Getronics
White Paper The framework allowed selective execution of business scenarios and offered capturing and reporting of SAP error messages for better understanding of failures. Getronics is one of the world's leading providers of vendor-independent Information and... [27 Mar 2008]
IP Next-Generation Network Requirements for Scalable and Reliable Broadcast IPTV Services
White Paper Cisco has developed a service optimized IP NGN architecture, for service providers that, together with the Cisco CRS-1: Delivers emerging large-scale IP broadcast video services with the availability and reliability that ensures an entertainment... [24 Mar 2008]
Moving SaaS/On-Demand From Dream to Successful Reality
White Paper IT and network integration challenges, exacerbated by the lack of understanding of the "Transformational elements" and the lack of realization of core competencies, have produced more SaaS failures than successes to date. [11 Mar 2008]
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