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- Availability
- The accessibility of a system resource in a timely manner; for example, the measurement of a system's uptime. Availability is one of the six fundamental components of information security...
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- Rezervi Belegungsplan und Gastedatenbank (zip)
- Availability overview and guest database for PHP and MySQL database. Integrate a graphical availability overview of your rooms in your Web site. Manage your guests online with a database. You can change the design of the availability overview easily so that you have the same design as your Web site....
- Tags: Availability, MySQL, Web Site Development, Databases, Storage, Open Source, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-04-11
- Telekom Austria Enhances Data Availability With Upgraded Operating System
- Vienna-based Telekom Austria Group is a large, growing telecommunications company that serves more than 12 million customers in Austria and surrounding countries. Critical to company operations are two physically separate data centers used for managing information such as customer histories, billing information, and call center records. To provide greater availability...
- Tags: Availability, Billing, Microsoft Windows Server, Telekom Austria, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, File Servers, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Rochester Institute of Technology Improves Applications' Availability With Hosted Solution
- Founded in 1829, Rochester Institute of Technology RIT is an internationally recognized leader in professional and career-oriented education, enrolling more than 15,000 students in eight colleges. Rochester Institute of Technology wanted to improve availability of core Enterprise Resource Management ERP applications. The challenge was to streamline systems management and upgrades...
- Tags: Availability, Oracle Corp., ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Inside Amazon
- You're running one of the world's busiest e-commerce sites, handling up to 4 million checkouts per day. Response time is critical. Every page is customized on the fly using over 150 network services. And the system must manage failures of any component, including entire data centers. ...
- Tags: Availability, QoS, Intelligence, Amazon.com Inc., Systems Management, Dynamo, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- High Availability Solutions: Avaya Media Servers and Media Gateways With Avaya Communication Manager Software
- Companies are staking their success on reliable communications systems. With the convergence of voice and data applications running on common systems, the stakes grow higher. A communications failure could bring an entire business to a halt, with disastrous consequences. Executives and communication managers who understand what it takes to assure...
- Tags: Software, Availability, Media Server, High Availability, Server, Avaya Inc., Call Centers, It Operations
- White papers 2007-07-31
- AvailiTime (exe)
- AvailiTime is the solution for sharing your availability with your clients, contacts, and business associates across the Internet. Using your Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, or Google Calendar, AvailiTime shares your availability with the contacts that you choose. Version 4.1 adds support for iCalendar.
- Tags: Availability, AvailiTime, Internet, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, E-mail Servers, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2007-05-17
- OraSpy (exe)
- OraSpy is a small utility that checks the availability of your Oracle databases. It features a tnsnames import tool and an integrated ping and tnsping tool. Anyone who is interested in monitoring the availability of their Oracle databases should consider using OraSpy. It is very easy to setup and you...
- Tags: Availability, Oracle Database, OraSpy, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2005-12-12
- Concepts for High Availability in Scientific High-End Computing
- Scientific High-End Computing HEC has become an important tool for scientists world-wide to understand problems, such as in nuclear fusion, human genomics and nanotechnology. Every year, new HEC systems emerge on the market with better performance and higher scale. With only very few exceptions, the overall availability of recently installed...
- Tags: Availability, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, High Availability, Computing
- White papers 2005-10-03
- Planning for IBM eServer i5 Data Protection With Auxiliary Write Cache Solutions
- Availability of data is critical in today's competitive business environment. The availability of your business system and the integrity of your data is vital. This paper helps you plan and implement a data integrity solution that includes the auxiliary write cache feature. This includes features and functions that support the...
- Tags: Availability, Data Protection, IBM eServer, IBM Corp., Utility Computing, Servers, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2005-08-01
- There Is No Free Lunch With Distributed Data White Paper: Consistency, Availability, and Partition-Tolerance Trade-Offs on Distributed Data Access Systems
- There is no "free lunch" with distributed data. The "CAP theorem" research described shows that one of the three (consistency, availability, and partition-tolerance) has to be traded away. HP EFS WAN Accelerators offer application acceleration that is always consistent regardless of network and server failures, with the best availability that...
- Tags: Availability, Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Access, EFS WAN Accelerator, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2005-05-01
- The Keys to Effective IT Service Management
- As business processes become critically dependant on IT supported applications, the pressure to deliver availability and performance for business applications continue to mount. By taking a proactive approach to availability and performance, IT Operations can anticipate potential problems before they impact the business, and alleviate some of this pressure. The...
- Tags: Availability, Information Technology, Mercury Interactive Corp., Strategy, Performance Management, Service Level Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, It service Management
- Webcasts 2005-03-22
- Monitoring Application Performance and Availability Using Service Availability
- To operate any business effectively, you need to know whether an application is available and how much time that application takes to process user activity so that you can minimize the impact to users if any problems develop. Service Availability provides automated, real-time monitoring of availability and response time, immediate...
- Tags: Availability, Performance, Monitoring, Concord Communications Inc., E-health, Healthcare
- White papers 2004-11-23
- Augmenting Web-Based Collaboration With Adaptive Replication and Mobility
- Two systems are surveyed in this paper. First, the middleware DIRECS, for supporting the adaptive wide-area replication of collaboration data and thereby the availability, responsiveness and failure resilience of web-based collaborative systems. Availability is adaptive with regard to replication consistency requirements, and vice-versa. Second, the middleware MOVE, for supporting adaptive...
- Tags: Availability, Web-based Collaboration, Informatica, Mobility, Replication
- White papers
- IT Availability: Removing Chance From the Equation
- Excellent service is not just a key ingredient in customer satisfaction, it's a customer keeper. Customer loyalty can disappear in moments with a slip in availability and reliability of service. Technology advances have spawned improvements to the availability and reliability of IT infrastructures, but these technology improvements alone are not...
- Tags: Availability, Information Technology, Service, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts
Additional Resources
- Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing
- On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- iPhone 3G availability tracker mashup
- Looking for an iPhone 3G? Apple provides an iPhone 3G availability application on their retail Web page that lists iPhone availability by store location. The app appears to be offline as of press time. The problem is that Apple's availability application forces you to drill down store...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G, Mashup, Chris Barnes, 3G, Collaboration, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...
- Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Virtual Iron Customer Profile: Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann, LLP
- I had the chance to speak with Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann's David Roden, a few questions about their use of Virtual Iron's virtual server environment. Thanks for spending time with me, David! Here are my questions and David's answers: Who are you and what...
- Tags: Virtual Iron, Server Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Five Essential Considerations For Exchange 2007® Implementations
- As the latest release of the most commonly used corporate email platform, Exchange 2007 represents the future of email. By the end of 2008, 50% of organizations that use Exchange are expected to move to Exchange 20071. For most organizations, taking full advantage of Exchange 2007's new features...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, E-mail, Online Communications
- White papers 2008-07-23
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