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Field MTBF Numbers: What Do They Really Mean?: MTBF is an acronym for Mean Time Between Failures. In general, a higher MTBF number indicates a more reliable product. Beyond this simple definition, you’ll find a wide variety of special meanings. In the military/aerospace industries, MTBF is defined by a specific set of calculations. The formula for system longevity...; Tags: Liebert Corp., MTBF, Strategy, Management; White papers 2000-06-15
Business Continuity Webcast: In August of 2003, a lot of companies thought they had UPS coverage, so they thought a power failure was not a business failure. They were wrong. Offline or standby UPSs let disturbances through, damaging or destroying systems and data. Line-interactive UPSs ran out of battery power before the blackout...; Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Liebert Corp., Business Continuity, It Services; Webcasts
The Best of Uptimes: Strategies for Assuring Business Continuity: A highly resilient IT infrastructure can mean the difference between business wins and disaster. In this webcast, the presenter will discover the latest business continuity best practices and explore the inside and outside factors that interoperate to impact critical IT systems, and shape a person's ability to anticipate and respond...; Tags: Webcast, Liebert Corp., Information Technology, Uptime, Business Continuity, It Services, Strategy, Management; Webcasts

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Dishing It Out: There may soon be just one satellite radio company. Now, the stars seem to be aligning for there to be just one satellite TV company, as well. First, in radio. The FCC is close to making a decision that will let Sirius Satellite Radio Inc acquire arch-rival...; Tags: AT&T Corp., DirecTV, Satellite, Satellite Television, Liberty Media Corp., John Malone, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Satellite TV, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-02
Microsoft Equipt: good deal, lousy name: Microsoft Equipt: good deal, lousy nameJust what is "Equipt"?This name certainly does not contain any hint as to why someone would want it. Product names should be at least somewhat related to the purpose of the product.I also dont like software subscriptions. It seems that they are simply another way...; Tags: Microsoft Equipt, Microsoft Corp., lousy name, good deal, Microsoft Office; Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Now I know we're in a recession: Now I know we're in a recessionPricingYou can't sell coffee at those prices in a mainstrean coffee chain on a long term basis. Certainly not when it's either a coffe or a gallon of regular unleaded :-) A Sophie's choice indeed.Well, Starbucks in Vienna, Austria, EU, does (Starbucks is more...; Tags: Auto Industry, Starbucks Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-07-02
Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade dance: Microsoft still has the hots for Yahoo and now wants to enlist partners to win the target's search business. Yes, folks the Microhoo saga continues and boy are these two crazy kids awkward. According to The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is still trying to airlift the search...; Tags: Jerry Yang, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-02
Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - Symantec's take: Microsoft's announcement of Hyper-V, as with other Microsoft announcement, brings out the spin-miesters in the marketing departments at Microsoft's partners and competitors alike. Over the past few days I've been posting a summary of some of the converstions I've been having about Hyper-V. This time, I spoke with Sean Derrington...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Marketing, VERITAS Software Corp., Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Storage, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-07-02
An effective way to treat Web 2.0 vulnerabilities: An effective way to treat Web 2.0 vulnerabilitiesIt does work!Hi Nate,I couldn't agree more! We changed our approach to application security around 1 year ago and one of the core changes was that security is as much of a defect as a functional issue. It really has made a world...; Tags: Nate, Web 2.0 vulnerability, security, Web 2.0, vulnerability, Web; Discussion threads 2008-06-29
Bill Gates: Saving the world is easier than saving Microsoft?: Bill Gates: Saving the world is easier than saving Microsoft?sure theres competition alwaysMicrosoft is doing well & not in dire straits that it needs its founder to revive it. They have a good team in place. The transition is the most well planned transition ever known.Also recent products of Microsoft...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Leadership, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates, Microsoft Windows Vista; Discussion threads 2008-06-27
Tech heavyweights launch security response consortium: Interesting bit of news coming out of the FIRST Conference in Vancouver today:Â Five big-name IT firms have created a non-profit consortium aimed at "proactively driving excellence and innovation in security response." The group -- called ICASI Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet --...; Tags: Security Threat, Information Technology, Consortium, ICASI, Security, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-06-26
MySpace's "data portability" initiative goes live today - prepare to be locked-in: News Corp.-owned MySpace will today officially launch its MySpace Data Availability Project, the company's previously announced so-called "data portability" initiative in which users will be able to optionally share their public profile data with participating sites, along with their MySpace photos, MySpaceTV videos and friend lists. by Steve O'Hear; Tags: Data, Site, MySpace, Internet, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-06-26
iSuppli: iPhone 3G costs $173 to make: An article at Business Week states that the forthcoming iPhone 3G costs Apple approximately US$173 to manufacture. The estimate is based on its Bill of Materials BOM according to a preliminary "virtual teardown" conducted by iSuppli Corp. "At a hardware BOM and manufacturing cost of $173,...; Tags: Apple iPhone, iSuppli Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-06-24
Microhoo talks on again--or not: Microhoo talks on again--or notCould be someone trying to raiseYahoo's stock price before they sell.This just in: [i]Reuters - CNBC says no deal "whatsoever" on the table between Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp, citing unnamed sources.Copyright 2008 Reuters[/i]This is getting downright dysfunctionalMaybe something like the alcoholic who just has to...; Tags: Benefits, Financial accounting, Investment, Sue Decker, Yahoo! Inc., Microhoo, Icahn, Yang; Discussion threads 2008-06-24
Microhoo talks on again--or not: Reuters followed a TechCrunch report that Microsoft was resuming talks with Yahoo with a CNBC report that there's no deal on the table. Update: CNBC says no deal "whatsoever" on the table between Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp, citing unnamed sources. NEW YORK--Microsoft Corp...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Blogging, Internet, Reuters, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, News Corp., merger; News items 2008-06-24
Facebook overtakes MySpace globally: The latest comScore figures show Mark Zuckerberg's social network has overtaken its News Corp rival for worldwide unique visitors. New figures from metrics firm comScore show that, in May, the battle of the social-networking sites may have gained a new front-runner: Facebook appears to have surpassed long-time rival MySpace...; Tags: Facebook, ComScore Networks Inc., Site, MySpace, Hi5, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Caroline McCarthy, ComeScore, ratings, social network; News items 2008-06-23
Friday Rant - Why no MSI installer for Firefox?: Friday Rant - Why no MSI installer for Firefox?Do IT departments want Firefox?Firefox is all well and good and what I am using right now. But.... A lot of corporate software demands the use of IE--probably a version or two old at that. Cognos comes to mind...; Tags: Web browsers, MSI, Mozilla Firefox, installer; Discussion threads 2008-06-20
iPhone 3G could flop in Japan: iPhone 3G could flop in Japan10% marketshare is a flop?I'm not sure I agree with that. What I got from the article was that a year ago, 9.6% said they would buy one and 62.2% said they would consider buying one. In other words, 28% of people said they weren't...; Tags: Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., cell phone, iPhone 3G, 3G; Discussion threads 2008-06-19
Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertise: Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertiseCompanies making money from open source.Well, there's Red Hat... and there's Red Hat and, oh yes, I remember, Red Hat.There are ways to save expenses with open source, but that's different from making money with open source. If a company...; Tags: open source; Discussion threads 2008-06-17
Microsoft: Silverlight 1.0 breaks with Firefox 3: Microsoft: Silverlight 1.0 breaks with Firefox 3It seems odd that if it's a Firefox...problem that it would be fixed by a Silverlight update.M$ is trying to break firefoxsame old story: M$ releases an update that screws third parties.MS bad code, MS fix exists but not released?!According to the bug report,...; Tags: Web browsers, Nigel, Reading, Obviously Microsoft, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Silverlight 1.0; Discussion threads 2008-06-17