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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

Why Email Fails

Email has become the most pervasive form of business communication, impacting every aspect of every organization: communications between management, employees, prospects, customers, vendors, suppliers, partners, investors, and analysts. According to Osterman Research, email traffic between 2008 and 2012 is projected to grow by 68%. ...

Tags: Email System, Email Outage, E-mail, Online Communications

White papers 2008-08-01

The Business Case for High Availability Email

As email becomes a more critical component of every enterprise, the consequences of downtime are becoming worse. Yet, email outages continue to occur despite organizations' increasing efforts to prevent these with complex and costly infrastructure. This report examines the trouble with email availability at typical enterprises today...

Tags: Business Case, High Availability, MessageOne, Email Outage, E-mail, Online Communications

White papers

Additional Resources

PRTG Network Monitor 7.1.3.3376 (Windows)

An advanced, easy-to-use monitoring solution for your entire network. The software's features include: up/downtime monitoring, traffic and usage monitoring, packet sniffing, in-depth analysis and concise reporting. A user-friendly web-based interface allows users to quickly configure the network devices and sensors they wish to monitor. All common methods for network usage...

Tags: Monitor, Network, Data Acquisition, Monitoring, Sensor, Microsoft Windows, Paessler, PRTG Network Monitor, Commercial Editions, Networking, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-07-03

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...

Tags: downtime, high availability

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

The Harsh Reality of Suburban Broadband, Part Deux

Goddamit! Why have I been offline for so long? As I explained in a previous article last summer about my broadband situation, my employer, like many large technology services companies, has elected to classify my work situation as "Home-Based", in that...

Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Broadband, Mike, Cable Guy, Modems, Cable, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Networking, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-26

InterMapper 5.1.4 (Windows)

With InterMapper, network managers get complete visibility of their network, no matter how small and centralized or large and distributed. Live maps give a visual, real-time view of traffic flows through and between network elements and links. Status Windows and Strip Charts provide easy access to critical network data (traffic,...

Tags: Network, Microsoft Windows, Dartware, Networking

Software downloads 2009-06-17

News to know: Yahoo CFO; Oracle's Java; iPhone 3G S specs; EC2 outage

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Yahoo names Tim Morse as new CFO Larry Dignan: Can Oracle give Java a boost (and...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Java, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Pricing, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-06-12

News to know: Palm CEO; Barry Diller; iPhone upgrade; Iomega; MS Money

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Palm injects Apple DNA: Colligan out as CEO; Rubinstein in Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Barry Diller: The Internet 'Absolutely'...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Iomega Corp., Palm Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-06-11

News to know: Office 2010 leak; Windows Mobile; Wolfram/Alpha; SOA; Zappos; ;

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Mobile Dev team: 'Windows Mobile 6.5 is done' New Microsoft Office 2010 test build leaks Zack Whittaker: Screenshots:...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Dana Blankenhorn, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Mobile Applications, Microsoft Office, Wireless And Mobility, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Office Suites

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Yes, the cloud is still OK, even after Google's "glitch"

Yes, the cloud is still OK, even after Google's "glitch"Cloud and CLOUD Yes could is great and everything ...But any mission critical data should never be on the cloud ......Any outage or problem with your data and if you wanna sue cloud company good luck ....Email ,stuff like that...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

News to know: Google; Facebook; HP battery recall

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Apple eliminates CanSecWest Pwn2Own flaws Larry Dignan: Cloudy day: Google falters; Packets lost in key cities Sam Diaz: Google outage...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Battery, Twitter, Engineering, Wireless And Mobility

Blog posts 2009-05-15

Google outage isn't reason enough to avoid a cloud strategy

Google outage isn't reason enough to avoid a cloud strategyhybrid approachThe hybrid approach is really the only approach you can afford, not "at least initially", but forever or until proven stable enough for you.Most people DO have a hybrid approach, with apps both local and cloud, so when their online...

Tags: Manufacturing, Cloud strategy, Google Inc., outage, strategy

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

Google outage isn't reason enough to avoid a cloud strategy

updated below with responses from Google, AT&T: I realize that emotions can run high when things like e-mail suddenly stop working. This morning, the twittersphere blew up with reports of widespread troubles with GMail and other Google services. Just as quickly, some used this opportunity to bash...

Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Outage, Manufacturing, E-mail, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Cloudy day: Google, Gmail sucking wind or down; Packets lost in key cities

Cloudy day: Google, Gmail sucking wind or down; Packets lost in key citiesRE: Cloudy day: Google, Gmail sucking wind or down; Packets lost in key citiesI can't function like this; I need Google! Thanks for reporting this news, it's nice to know it's not me, I guess.So lets see.....No downtime...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Inc., Cloudy day, Google Gmail, key city

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

Cloudy day: Google falters; Packets lost in key cities

Updated: Here's how Google's outage unfolded on Thursday...  We're getting various reports via that Google services are down or at least sucking some serious wind. The service appears to be back as of noon-ish EDT in New York City. Google cites a "traffic jam" in Asia for...

Tags: Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Outage, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft

The numbers don't lie An independent study found on-site Microsoft apps - Office and Exchange - cost 20x in capital dollars and 5x-6x more than Google Apps on a 3 year Total Cost of Ownership TCO basis. How can Microsoft compete? The debate Cloud, as...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Network, Data Loss, Downtime, Microsoft Corp., Business Problem, TwinStrata, SATA RAID 5, Capital Requirement, Update:Here, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-05-05

AT&T announces Curve 8900 for early Summer

AT&T announces Curve 8900 for early SummerSorry, No Crackberry For MeI don't want to have to rely on a proprietary network that if it goes down, my device is rendered useless..Curve 8310 is wonderful, hope this is really an improvementMy work Curve 8310 is an awesome phone as configured on...

Tags: E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, AT&T Corp., Curve 8900, early summer, phone, Curve 8310

Discussion threads 2009-05-04

What do you do when the Internet goes out?

The fellows over at Lifehacker have some great ideas on what to do when your Internet goes out. Many of us spend the majority of our workday on the Internet or at least on the company's own network. But what to do when there's an outage?...

Tags: Desktop, Zen, Computer, Kevin Purdy, Desktop Zen, Internet, Productivity, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-16

News to know: Windows 7; Twitter; Satyam; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: How hard will it be to move to the Windows 7 Release Candidate? ...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Dana Blankenhorn, Satyam, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Open Source, Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Internet, Management

Blog posts 2009-04-13