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- What a difference one atom makes
- A new study by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science shows exactly how important a single atom can be in a complex molecule. Reporting in the Nov. 26 edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Yang Yang, a professor of materials science...
- Tags: University Of California At Los Angeles, Solar Cell, Polymer, Solarmer Energy Inc., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS attack
- Timing is everything. Millions of account holders at privately owned online payment gateway AlertPay.com weren't able to do business through the service yesterday, due to the fact that AlertPay was under a large scale DDoS attack, according to a notice left by a company representative. Seven hours of downtime right...
- Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, AlertPay, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Virus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military base
- Earlier this month we saw the military ban the use of USB drives and other removable media. Apparently the virus outbreak that lead to this measure affected 75% of all systems at the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan. Details are still sparse, but both the...
- Tags: Virus, Military, Details, Cyberthreats, Biotechnology, Security, Viruses And Worms, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-29
- Preparing for a Flickr Apocalypse (Updated, with Yahoo response)
- What would happen to my food blog and precious memories if suddenly all 12,000 of my photos were suddenly to disappear off Flickr? Tuesday's posts by ZDNet's Janice Chen and SAAS Blogger Phil Wainewright scared the living crap out of...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Blog, Flickr, Photograph, Flickredit, Blogging, Internet, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Live Webcast: Reduce the Risk of Email Downtime and Lower Your Total Cost of Ownership
- Email has become the most pervasive channel for business communication yet despite large enterprise investments in replication, mirroring, and tape backup systems, email systems continue to fail. While natural and man-made disasters can lead to email outages, new data shows that email systems are more frequently brought down by technological...
- Tags: Webcast, Downtime, TCO, MessageOne, Email System, Email Outage, E-mail, Online Communications
- Webcasts 2008-11-11
- Can Zimbra compete with Google Apps in education?
- Can Zimbra compete with Google Apps in education?Gmail's recent failureis reason enough not to use an external system - no control of your destiny at allhttp://www.itworld.com/saas/56225/extended-gmail-outage-hits-google-apps-adminsControlYou can't always control what happens in-house either. Accidents happen, and stuff breaks. For the price, what can you expect? Some places...
- Tags: cloud computing, Google Inc., e-mail, uptime, server, Zimbra, Google Apps
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- The 'real' cost of application outages
- The 'real' cost of application outagesavailabilityDowntime costs will naturally depend on the business. I worked many years at NYSE, where downtime could cost millions. I used to maintain and run one of their most critical systems. Over 7 years, the total 'unavailable' time was less than 50 seconds.Now working in...
- Tags: Mainframes, Manufacturing, Servers, outage, mainframe, application outage
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- Gathering clouds brew up a storm
- With all kinds of cloud announcements promised at Microsoft PDC next week, rival vendors Amazon and Rackspace have tried to steal a little early thunder with some announcements of their own. This is the beginning of a titanic struggle to establish the top cloud providers, and this week's announcements have...
- Tags: Rackspace, Web Hosting, It Services, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-10-25
- Red Hat CEO: Vista marks end of 'planned software'
- Red Hat CEO: Vista marks end of 'planned software'Red Hat CEO: Vista marks end of 'planned software'Is this guy completely clueless? Who actually listens to this fool? Planned software is the backbone of the software industry. That is how they get customers to prepare for an upgrade...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, UNIX, IBM OS, Red Hat Inc., software, Linux, open source, operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-10-20
- Watching the WAN: Is it time to invest?
- As companies start to tighten the belt and look for places around the office to save money and hopefully increase efficiency. I wondered what else could be done for a company's tech backbone to keep the pencil-pushers from just hacking away. For some input, I tapped the folks at SilverPeak...
- Tags: MPLS, Network, WANs, Networking, Network Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Gmail outage: Not enough reason to avoid the cloud
- Gmail outage: Not enough reason to avoid the cloudAnd, Google has an army working 24x7 to keep it all working. When there isan outage, it is GOOGLE'S problem, NOT yours, and it gets fixed faster. Gmail is more reliable than any other email I have used - especially those supplied...
- Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, e-mail, Google Gmail, Google Inc., outage
- Discussion threads 2008-10-17
- Gmail outage: Not enough reason to avoid the cloud
- In case you didn't hear, Gmail had an outage yesterday. I wasn't affected personally - the company said it affected only a small number of people. And even though it was rumored that the outage could last close to 24 hours, apparently the problem was relatively short-lived and quickly resolved....
- Tags: Google Gmail, Basement, Information Technology, Outage, Cloud, Manufacturing, E-mail, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Online Communications, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- Sun brings open source and virtualization to K12
- Sun brings open source and virtualization to K12Thin Clients do offer many advantagesSome other hard data might be interesting, such as*total* electrical load up? down? (servers + clients)*total cost of ownership* up? down? (last time I looked, the costs would be less, but that was for an HP systemMTBF? up?...
- Tags: Thin clients, cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, K12, MTBF, GOOD Question, virtualization, server, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.
- Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.So if the task gets sold to ONE bidder......what company is big enough to "connect" the entire country? And wouldn't that be creating a monopoly? Or wouldn't a monopoly exist, because the system is free?If it is free, where is the financial...
- Tags: Taxes, Wireless LANs, Free trade, WIRELESS, Internet, tax, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- WiMax - the technology, devices and momentum - finally arrives.
- WiMax - the technology, devices and momentum - finally arrives.Great NewsI've been reading a of articles about wimax and the buzz is all the same...excitement. This is evidence enough for me that it's time to buy a new laptop :)No information?Coverage where? Fixed or Mobile? Reception distance?ANSWERS:Coverage...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, WiMAX
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Cisco SONA
- Cisco caught my attention by asking me if I wanted to see the results of a study indicating how organizations are seeing Web 2.0 and/or Service Oriented Architecture SOA application adoption. Having executed dozens of studies of this nature while I was at IDC, I was interested in the results,...
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Information Technology, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Strategy, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Netflix: Outage, economy ding subscriber growth
- Netflix: Outage, economy ding subscriber growthDid they miss or just hit the low end?From the article:"Netflix said it ended the quarter with 8.67 million subscribers, a tally that missed the company’s range of 8.67 million to 8.87 million."If the numbers are accurate, they just hit the bottom their expected numbers.they...
- Tags: Manufacturing, NetFlix Inc., subscriber growth
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Netflix: Outage, economy ding subscriber growth
- Netflix on Monday detailed its outlook for the third and fourth quarters, projected fewer subscribers than before and said its August outage cost it $6.5 million. The company said in a statement that its third quarter earnings will be "comfortably" within its targets, but said a one-time...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Outage, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
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