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Children's Service Nonprofit Chooses Terminal Services to Foster Productivity: A typical Northwood location is used to house and educate students, as well as host administrative offices. To serve applications to its employees, Northwood used three Citrix servers running the Windows Server 2003 operating system. According to Whitehead, downtime was not uncommon. He and his staff often used Windows Remote...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Downtime, Microsoft Corp., Northwood Location, Microsoft Windows, Terminal Services, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware; Case studies 2008-03-06
Wisconsin Vending Company Stocks Less Network downtime: La Crosse, Wisconsin-based Stansfield Vending sells, leases, and services a wide variety of vending machines. Stansfield needed to stabilize its application server, which co-existed on the same computer as DNS and DHCP servers. The DNS and DHCP servers frequently overloaded the application server. Because Stansfield Vending was already familiar with...; Tags: DHCP, DNS, Microsoft Windows Server, Stock, Downtime, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Domain Names, Servers, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Hardware; Case studies 2008-03-06
Managing IT Risk With Symantec Business Critical Services: The presenter of this webcast discusses how to effectively manage risk with Symantec's Business Critical Services. This solution reduces the exposure to IT risk by providing both rapid reactive service when there is a downtime incident and proactive services to keep downtime from occurring. In this complimentary webcast, based on...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Information Technology, Downtime, Security; Webcasts 2008-02-19
BTL podcast: Amazon's dark cloud, Microsoft shuffle and more...: This week on the BTL podcast Larry and I discuss the dark cloud around Amazon's S3 on demand infrastructure. The service suffered an outage for a few hours that brought home the reality of on demand services, whether infrastructure or applications. In addition, salesforce.com suffered some service interruptions this week...; Tags: Downtime, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Podcasts, Internet, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-02-15
Bebo downtime increases tenfold - third-party apps to blame?: Downtime for the social networking site Bebo has increased tenfold from December to January, and continues an upward trend, reports the website monitoring service Pingdom. According to Pingdom's official blog: The popular social networking service had only five minutes of downtime in November and 30 minutes...; Tags: Bebo, Downtime, Stern, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-02-15

IT Manager Webcast: Delivering High Availability to Your Infrastructure (Level 100): Organizations put a lot of value on mission-critical servers and rely on them heavily to run their businesses. As a result, server downtime can be very costly. For every benefit and advantage brought to an organization by an IT solution, technology and business decision-makers should also think about how to...; Tags: Webcast, High Availability, Downtime, Server, Microsoft Corp.; Webcasts 2008-02-07
Karachi Stock Exchange Achieves Zero downtime With Clustered Database Solution: Founded in 1947, the Karachi Stock Exchange KSE is Pakistan's largest and oldest stock exchange. Karachi Stock Exchange KSE wanted to implement a robust database platform to run business-critical applications, ensure 24/7 systems availability for online trading and capture and store large amounts of confidential trade data. The challenge was...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Downtime, Stock Exchange, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Case studies 2008-02-01
Medscheme Streamlines Transaction Processing and Virtually Eliminates System downtime: Medscheme wanted to implement a scalable, stable solution capable of handling a high number of online transactions in real time from pharmacies throughout the country and eliminated scheduled downtime caused by requirement for batch processing, regular backups and payment runs. The challenge was to improve data integrity by consolidating nine...; Tags: Data Integrity, Oracle Corp., Transaction Processing, Downtime, Medscheme; Case studies 2008-02-01
Minimizing downtime in SAP Environments: SAP basis administrators face many challenges in a world of steadily growing and increasingly complex SAP landscapes. How to run systems on different hardware systems depending on demand and load? How to migrate and clone systems if necessary, preferably on a 24x7 basis with the least amount of resources. In...; Tags: Administrator, Environment, Downtime, SAP AG; White papers 2008-02-01
Web Hosting Company Increases Server Capacity Six-Fold, Reduces Costs and downtime: With increased demands on its Web hosting infrastructure, HostMySite.com needed a solution that would minimize downtime while maximizing the number of sites on a single Web farm. HostMySite.com utilized the Storage Area Network SAN storage solution and network load balancing of Internet Information Services 7.0 and Windows Server 2008 to...; Tags: Web, Downtime, Server, Web Hosting, Storage, Internet, Hardware; Case studies 2008-01-01
Twitter downtime and life at home: What happens when a popular social network like Twitter click to follow me experiences high levels of failure or downtime? Cartoonist Geek and Poke has the answer: by Michael Krigsman; Tags: Downtime, Twitter, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2007-12-22
TechNet Webcast: Overview of SQL Server Availability Features and Upcoming Improvements (Level 200): Microsoft SQL Server Always On technologies support mission-critical applications with the highest level of availability. Any application downtime can impact business, resulting in loss of revenue, decreased customer satisfaction, and damage to company's credibility. The attendee of this webcast will learn about the high-availability capabilities in Microsoft SQL Server 2005...; Tags: Webcast, Microsoft SQL Server, Downtime, Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Webcasts 2007-12-13
URL Monitoring Tool (exe): Minimize downtime of your server! Any downtime of your website will result in moneraty loss. With this freeware monitoring tool you may constantly check the response from your server and make sure that your website is online hundred percent of the time. This software can periodically poll a specified URL...; Tags: Freeware, Downtime, Monitoring, Server, Web Site Development, Internet; Software downloads 2007-10-10
Lehmann & Voss Deployed a Cisco Storage Area Network to Defend Its Mission-Critical Applications Against downtime: Lehmann & Voss & Co. KG wanted to permanently safeguard the company's ability to supply its customers. The challenge was to reduce capital and operational costs through more efficient utilisation of resources. A Cisco optical solution connects the company's two computer centres in Hamburg and enables synchronous mirroring of business-critical...; Tags: Network, SAN, Downtime, Cisco Systems Inc., Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Hardware; Case studies 2007-09-10
SF power outage reveals disaster recovery plans need tweaking: SF power outage reveals disaster recovery plans need tweakingThat's what I was thinking as wellGranted, the major web service providers (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) all have more robust, redundant systems in place than a lot of smaller players. But even then I can't count how many times I've tried to...; Tags: Data centers, Manufacturing, E-mail providers, cloud concept, disaster recovery, outage, downtime, uptime; Discussion threads 2007-07-25
Salesforce.com's servers take weekend holiday: Charlie Wood runs Spanning Salesforce, a small company that provides a way to track salesforce information using RSS. He recently blogged about receiving a notice from salesforce.com about scheduled maintenance that shut down his access to salesforce.com for six hours, from 8 PM PDT to 2 AM PDT tonight.I get...; Tags: Salesforce.com, IT Management, General; Blog posts 2007-06-08
Network downtime, the Configuration Errors: This paper shares market research that highlights the importance of employing automated management tools to make networks more reliable. It discusses how some organisations fail to properly apply proven techniques to make networks function better. Furthermore, it shares how incorrect configuration on network elements can lead to downtime.; Tags: Network, Downtime, Networking; White papers 2007-05-06
Reducing downtime Costs With Network-Based IPS: Every year the CSI/FBI computer crime survey contains data about organization losses due to security breaches; respondents to that study report lost assets due to cybercrime, and past surveys have shown average losses in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per organization. The true equalizer is downtime. All sizes and...; Tags: Security, Network, Downtime, Equalizer; White papers 2007-04-01
Systems downtime expense calculator: When your network goes down, determining lost productivity and the net cost of the downtime can give you a better sense of what you'll need to do to make up the loss. This Excel spreadsheet is designed to help place a dollar figure on your downtime. This download is...; Tags: Downtime; Download resources 2007-03-29
Could a startup beat Microsoft and Google to market with a 'cloud OS'?: Could a startup beat Microsoft and Google to market with a 'cloud OS'?Sounds interesting.I just signed up. Anything to support Microsoft competitors!Website is SLOW... NO thanksIf it works like the website you can forget it!!!ha haReally don't get itSo I download a new operating system on top of the one...; Tags: Operating systems, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Web site, downtime, Internet, Google Inc., operating system; Discussion threads 2007-03-01