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- The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure.
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- Jeju University Hospital Improves System Performance, Eliminates Network Downtime
- Jeju National University Hospital is a teaching hospital, which was established in November 2001. Korea's Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs recognized the hospital as a specialist intensive care and emergency institution. Over recent years, the amount of electronic patient records that needed to be managed and archived had...
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- University Cuts Downtime, Saves Thousands of Dollars a Year in Data Center Costs
- Indiana University is a large state university and leading research center with 100,000 students. The university's Auxiliary Information Technology AIT department, which manages IT services for auxiliary departments, deployed Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V virtualization technology in its data center. The IT staff continued to look for opportunities to enhance...
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- Small Business Strategies to Limit the Risk and Affects of Data Loss: Preventing Unplanned Downtime and Business Failure
- As a business owner or IT professional, one understands how crucial data is to the health of company. No matter what field one is in, today it is almost impossible to do business without having an Internet presence and an up-to-date website. Moreover, most businesses today, from the largest corporations...
- White papers 2009-09-12
- Am I a big whiner about Gmail's downtime?
- I received a lot of feedback on my post from Tuesday, "Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes down." Comments ranged from commiseration, to ridicule for buying into a cloud-based solution, to thoughtful musings on the nature of the cloud in education. by Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Gmail FAIL - What it says about Google and email in general
- A little perspective...2 hours of downtime since May. That's at least 3 months of uptime if the May outage happened to fall on the last day of the month. Applying a little math, that tells me that GMail has had an uptime percentage of 99.999%. That's the...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Pushback on cloud computing: next year, 'Intelligent Fog'?
- 'I'd rather have five hours of downtime while the employees are asleep at night than 10 minutes of downtime while they are at work' by Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Don't rely on industry averages for cost of downtime
- On a weekly basis, I get at least one inquiry request from either a vendor or an end-user company seeking industry averages for the cost of downtime. Vendors like to quote these statistics to grab your attention and to create a sense of urgency to buy their products or services. BC/DR planners...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Downtime Manager 6.5.3 (Windows)
- DownTime Manager is an information database tool which helps you keep track of your equipment downtime. Tracking your equipment downtime is very necessary to maintain better systems performance in an organization. This tool helps you track when the downtime occurs at its most. This information is stored and displayed in...
- Software downloads 2009-08-06
- Bouncing Back From Disaster... Getting Your IT Environment Running Quickly and Efficiently
- It is almost inevitable that a company at one or another will face the unfortunate task of recovering from some type of unforeseen downtime. This could be anything from a natural disaster to a power failure. However, what sets the leading organizations apart from their peers is how quickly and...
- Webcasts 2009-08-05
- Zero Downtime Backup of MaxDB Database With HP Data Protector
- At the moment, there is no official DP-MaxDB interface to perform Zero Downtime Backup ZDB and Instant Recovery for Data Protector versions 5.5, 6.0, as well as 6.1. However, it is possible to perform ZDB using a scripted solution. This white paper provides the procedure on how to ZDB a...
- White papers 2009-08-01
- LG Display Reduces Manufacturing Downtime by 50% With Oracle E-Business Suite R12
- With competition increasing in the TFT-LCD market, LG Display had to increase efficiency, improve quality control, and enhance risk management if it wanted to meet customer demands for quality, cost, and prompt delivery. This required a comprehensive review and restructure of the company's business processes and systems. In January 2009,...
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- 10 ways to avoid expensive application downtime
- An application management strategy can help IT maintain effective performance and service levels and prevent costly failures. Here are some key features and capabilities to look for in an application management solution.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.
- Download resources 2009-07-20
- How do we measure high availability?
- How do we measure high availability?Downtime timing"In many cases, timing and duration are more important than total downtime/outage."This is so very, very true!I'd rather have my internet or computer be down at, say midnight when I'm sleeping than say around noon while I'm working on an important project.Of course, I...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- How do we measure high availability?
- Over the past 2 months, I've seen an increase in the number of end user inquiries regarding high availability and almost more importantly, how to measure high availability HA. HA means something different depending on whom you're talking with so it's worth a quick definition. I define HA as: ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Using Clustered File System Software for Superior Application Availability
- Managers across organizations of all types and sizes would prefer not to experience downtime, but that might not be realistic expectation. Organizations for which downtime - say, even 20 minutes - is a costly proposition have the option of using a clustered file system to deliver faster failover and less...
- White papers 2009-07-01
- IT Firm Uses Server Product to Reduce Customer Downtime From Forty Hours to One
- With offices in Centerville, Ohio, and Hebron, Kentucky, Total Care Computer Consulting specializes in developing long-term, solution-oriented IT partnerships with small businesses. After testing a beta release of the Windows Home Server operating system, Total Care Computer Consulting was eager to offer the product to its small business customers. The...
- Case studies 2009-06-16
- DownTime 1.6.3 (Mobile)
- DownTime is a large, clearly visible timer which features the timer countdown continues while you temporarily switch to another application, choose between several different color schemes, access your 10 previous timers, see a visible flashing alert when the timer runs out, alarm sound, and view the timer in landscape or...
- Software downloads 2009-06-11
- BlackBerry's reduce broadband outage downtime
- I got in from the Orange Street Music Club yesterday evening, a famous jazz and live venue in here in my city, only to discover my broadband had cut out. After the crap day that I had, this just topped it off. (Only on the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Migrate Your Oracle Databases with Near-Zero Downtime
- In today's economy, IT departments are asked to do more with less and stay within a limited budget. Unfortunately, challenges still mount - they need to upgrade and maintain growing databases, quickly solve user issues and keep application downtime to a minimum. In this new...
- White papers 2009-05-20
- Improve Performance in SAP Application Environments
- With the exploding growth of data, the typical DBA must spend a significant amount of time on tasks to improve performance and application availability. Achieving these goals in large dynamic database environments—especially those running SAP Applications on Oracle--presents many challenges. There is no time for downtime. Learn...
- White papers 2009-05-20
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