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- Live Webcast: Deliver Continuous Data Protection
- Can you really afford any downtime in times like these? In today's tough economic and competitive climate, businesses and organizations need to protect themselves from unplanned downtime that affects their sales, service, customer satisfaction, employee productivity and reputation. Besides business continuity BC, they also need to have a plan and...
- Tags: CA ARCserve, Webcast, Continuous Data Protection
- Webcasts 2009-10-19
- Microsoft announces its Azure cloud computing pricing
- Microsoft announces its Azure cloud computing pricingCompared to Amazon...I compared the prices with Amazon's equivalent, the results are in my blog at http://bit.ly/OT7V8. Anyway, they seem to be approximately the same, which is probably the meaning that we should have associated with being "competitive" all along.Is that a lot or...
- Tags: Six Sigma, Pricing, TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Microsoft Windows, Process improvement, cloud computing, Azure, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., pricing strategy
- Discussion threads 2009-07-14
- DataCore Advanced Site Recovery
- It's been quite a while since I last spoke with the folks from DataCore. I believe that the last post on this company was back in August 2008 (see Datacore - nothing but storage.) Last time the discussion focused on the need organizations should recognize to pair virtual storage solutions...
- Tags: Data Center, Recovery, Approach, DataCore, Data Centers, Storage, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Electric cars in America--the price point
- Electric cars in America--the price pointElectric cars in America--the price pointMy concern in addition to the price of the electric car is where do I plug it in to charge it? If its my house then how much is my electric bill going to be raised while its charging?...
- Tags: C02, disposal, power generation station, electric car, car, price point
- Discussion threads 2009-04-10
- TechNet Webcast: High Availability Basics With Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V (Level 200)
- Virtualization is a hot topic on customers' minds. But what happens if one consolidate a number of servers into virtual machines, put them on a single host computer, and that computer fails? All the eggs are in one basket, so to speak, and users may not be able to access...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, High Availability, Microsoft TechNet, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Hardware, Storage, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Webcasts 2009-03-19
- Will downtime rain on the cloud computing parade?
- Will downtime rain on the cloud computing parade?Cloud Computing Would be a Problem, ifCloud Computing Would be a Problem, if the vendor who provides the software runs out of the business. In that case, we may have to choose the competitor who give us the similar component. But sometimes our...
- Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, downtime
- Discussion threads 2009-03-11
- How Enterprise Vault Supports Exchange 2007 High Availability Options
- This paper outlines the high availability options introduced in Exchange 2007, namely LCR, CCR and SCR, and discusses how Enterprise Vault supports them. This paper is intended only to position these technologies with respect to Enterprise Vault and is not intended to be a deep level technical discussion or a...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Symantec Corp., High Availability
- White papers 2009-03-01
- Riding herd on the cloud with DataSynapse's Federator
- DataSynapse has launched a beta program for extensions to their DataSynapse Federator 1.5 allowing organizations using that tool to put the flexiblity and power of "cloud computing" to work on their current applications. (I've posted on DataSynapse several times in the past. For more information on the company please see...
- Tags: DataSynapse, Cloud Computing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- More on Symbian
- More on SymbianMore Pablum? No Thank You.Don't underestimate the intelligence of your readership.With articles like yesterday's you shot from the hip and now ask questions later.We understand that you are getting up to speed with learning Linux, Java and such, which is fine especially given you were readily open to...
- Tags: Smart phones, INTERNET, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Handhelds, Wood, Symbian Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-09
- Shipping news: Globalization halted by credit crisis
- DK Matai, chairman of the ATCA Open has written a very interesting article about global shipping of bulk cargo and how it has come to a halt because of the lack of letters of credit. Just five months ago it cost about $234,000 to rent a 170,000 tonne Capesize...
- Tags: Cargo, Financial, Raw Material, Vessel, Globalization, Great Unwind, Reports, Financial Accounting, Finance, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- CRM 2009 Forecast: How'd I Do in 2008? Gimme A High Four!
- Usually, when I begin my forecast for the coming year, I like to look at how I did the previous year - which is usually disconcerting to say the least. So, in honor of my first non-intro post for this ZDNET blog, I'm going to be nakedly transparent and show...
- Tags: Social Media, Business, Tool, CRM, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureOne application per serverThis model is pathetic. Mainframes can run more than one application at a time. So can UNIX machines. Windoze CAN run more than one application at a time, but the more apps you run simultaneously - the higher the risk of failure.This...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Operating systems, hardware, mainframe, Microsoft Windows, server, software, Microsoft Corp., United Parcel Service of America Inc., operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-10-31
- How do we address the have-nots?
- How do we address the have-nots?It's the NetThe problem is no longer the availability of hardware: many computers are being dumped that can easily be made productive again, by installing a lean Linux on it like Xubuntu. So poor people can have a fine computer for free. That's easy to...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, INTERNET, computer, Internet access
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Measuring malware infections in the Chinese Internet
- Guest editorial by Oliver Day In June 2008, StopBadware published a report with statistics (.pdf) based on our sample of infected website data from Google. In those statistics we noted that over half of the infections came from addresses originating in China. We've received some attention for...
- Tags: China, Infection, Malware, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- SteelEye Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer
- Bob Williamson, VP of Business Development for Steeleye, and I played a rousing game of telephone tag and meeting shuffle before finding a time that would work for a discussion of Steeleye's SteelEye Protection Suite. I was traveling making the task even more complex that it usually is. Since I've...
- Tags: Clustering, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Machine, SteelEye Protection Suite, Citrix XenServer, Disaster Recovery Protection, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Using High Availability, Replication and Virtualization for Business Continuity
- Organizations face a number of challenges to business continuity and application availability, such as volumes of data and application complexity, demands for round-the-clock operations, and server proliferation. Data replication and high availability can meet many of these challenges, but must be properly used and meet certain standards, if they are...
- Tags: High Availability, XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Replication, Business Continuity, It Services, Virtualization, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-06-26
- ByDesign, the younger person's ERP
- Many of the small and mid-sized businesses to whom SAP would like to sell its Business ByDesign SaaS offering are family-owned, especially in sectors like manufacturing, distribution and retail. SAP seems to feel that ByDesign will appeal to the forward-looking younger generation of those families â€" the future heirs of...
- Tags: Peter Zencke, Product, SAP AG, ERP, WIMA, Roi/Tco, Sales Strategy, Outsourcing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Sales, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIX
- Once upon a time I did a few articles for searchenterpriselinux at techtarget.com, but we parted ways very quickly over their commitment to Red Hat's anti-Sun marketing strategy. Ken Milberg, a guy I think I first ran into in the context of my original 2002...
- Tags: Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM AIX, Duck, IBM Corp., Attack, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Could 3Leaf's Virtual Compute Environment Grow on You?
- B.V. Jagadeesh, CEO of 3Leaf Systems, and I had a long, interesting discussion of what it would take to create the proper hardware platform for an agile, highly reliable, high performance environment using industry standard components when and wherever possible. It was pretty clear that that path requires the creation...
- Tags: 3Leaf Systems, Dan Kusnetzky, Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Environment, Hardware, I/O, Industry Standard, Servers, Storage
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
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