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- Is the cloud a better place for our data?
- As consumers, we have two options of storing our digital data: locally or elsewhere in the cloud. IntraLinks' Mushegh Hakhinian says it's like storing your savings in a mattress or a bank. Commentary- Data loss is an all too common a theme in the news these days. The recent...
- Tags: Bank, Password, Data Loss, cloud, storage, Mushegh Hakhinian IntraLinks, Special to ZDNet, Mushegh Hakhinian IntraLinks, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-10-26
- InterMapper 5.1.6 (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 2009-10-22
- "Most, if not all" Sidekick data recovered
- Well this is going to be interesting...So they had a catastrophic screw up and it looks like they worked their tales off to get it fixed.So that got a big black eye but at the same time it looks like they got it fixed. Whoever fixed this just got...
- Tags: Backups, backup
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- T-Mobile turns Sidekick data disaster into a PR mess
- This wasn't cloud computingThis wouldn't have happened with cloud computing. In a cloud architecture users wouldn't have even realized any disruption. They would have automatically been distributed among other non failed geo dispursed instances while the failed instance was automatically restarted on other hardware and restored from replicated data...
- Tags: Virtualization, PDC, cloud computing, SideKick, T-Mobile, public relations
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- T-Mobile Sidekick data outage tests mettle of 800,000 customers, carrier
- And before the gloating over a MS screw-up goes too far......try this one on for size, regarding Apple Snow Leopard hosing ALL data when logging in as a "guest". http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139250/Snow_Leopard_bug_deletes_all_user_dataLOL...LOL...ROTFLMAO :DThat's the cost of secrecy...secrecy enables you to get by just swiping your deficiencies under the rug but that...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, T-Mobile, T-Mobile Sidekick, secrecy, Microsoft Corp., Lol, straight face, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- Are you a mobile broadband hog? Should that be your problem?
- Well, if I am a light user, I DO NOT want to pay for the hogs that drive upcosts for the carriers. I want a dirt cheap plan, that will immediately throttle me if I start hogging, or, possibly give me the option to pay more if I want to...
- Tags: Smart phones, Wireless and Mobility, Network technology, Apple iPhone, mobile broadband, AT&T Corp., broadband, mobile, UNLIMITED
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- The coming "big crunch" - IT systems will start failing on a large scale
- ScaremongeringAll that was missing - the placard reading 'The End of the World is Nigh'.So my critical, clustered systems are going to start failing are they? Why did I cluster them then?My RAID arrays are going to start failing are they? Why did I go RAID then? And have I...
- Tags: RAID, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT System, power supply, information technology, hardware
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Why you should be glad about Gmail failures
- A future that will never happen."But the way I look at it, every Gmail outage is a small investment I?m willing to make towards a future when I?ll be able to take its reliability utterly for granted."Keep dreaming.They are machines created by humans, maintained by humans, running software created by...
- Tags: Manufacturing, E-mail providers, Perfection, outage, Google Inc., Google Gmail
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Unrealistic expections and the latest Gmail outage
- Gmail is down again? And you are giving them a free pass because they are Google? That is crazy talk. What you should be asking is "Why am I using this service that is constantly going down?" With an in-house solution you can have total control of your Microsoft...
- Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, IT IS, expection, Google Gmail, latest Gmail outage, Gmail outage, Unrealistic expection, Google Inc., outage
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- AT&T prepares for iPhone MMS day tomorrow
- Wow...Cool New Feature there Apple. Way to be inventive. Now Picture Mail, along with cut and paste are 2 innovations that keep iPhone hip and cool...even if every other smartphone has had those features since 1999 or so.Prediction: EPIC FAILWatch the network crash.RE: AT&T prepares for iPhone MMS day...
- Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Smart phones, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., MMS, iPhone MMS day, iPhone MMS
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Unrealistic expections and the latest Gmail outage
- So Gmail went down again this morning. It's a bit of a bummer, but I keep telling myself that it's OK, since I don't have to actually do anything to make it come back up again. All I have to do is check on the Apps Status page:...
- Tags: Google Gmail, Outage, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Groupware, Collaboration, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Office Web Apps: OneNote (Office Web Apps: New screenshots)
- Office Web AppsNot at all impressed with the Offfice Web Apps....while the other issue that many will still have to decide upon, if they want/ or should allow their own, or business data to be stored on the web/ internet/ cloud.....MS, along with many others pushing Web based apps have...
- Tags: cloud computing, Office Web Apps, Office Web, Web application, Microsoft Office, New screenshot, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Am I a big whiner about Gmail's downtime?
- Establish Down-Time Procedures. Move on.Google Apps is a GREAT resource.Whining for something you get for freeNTyes you areand on top of it you give the M$ shills something to hang on.I've never looked into it, but does Google Gears help......when / if Google Apps is down?Teachers are hardly unique...
- Tags: cloud computing, E-mail providers, Google Inc., big whiner, Google Gmail, whiner, Google Apps
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books
- 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: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...
- Tags: Google Inc., Andrew Nusca, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Data Centers, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Is it fair to criticize Google for the Gmail outage? [video]
- Yes it is fair to criticizeThis was a preventable mistake, and all preventable mistakes are worth criticizing.However I think the more important question is whether we are overreacting to what happened. And I think we are. A two hour outage actually less than that is not worth the amount of...
- Tags: Manufacturing, E-mail providers, cloud computing, Linux, video, Google Inc., outage, Google Gmail, Gmail outage, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- 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...
- Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Gmail, Google Inc., Gmail FAIL, uptime, downtime, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes down
- RE: Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes downMy office lost it primary and secondary links to our data farm. We spent the morning without access to our email exchange.The servers are off site for security and redundancy reasons. We are in a location that has all sort...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Inc., Internet Service Provider, Google Gmail, outage, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- Partly cloudy: Google's Gmail goes down; outage chronicled on Twitter
- Users are complaining on Twitter techmeme that Google's free Gmail e-mail service is down. TheNextWeb reports that Dutch news service NU.nl had to remove ads served by Google-owned Doubleclick because they weren't loading. We could only verify the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Twitter Inc., Outage, TC, UTC-4, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- University uses WiMAX to become dedicated student ISP's
- Northern Michigan University NMU has taken a bold step in converting their standard wireless infrastrure to WiMAX, a wireless Internet technology which makes ordinary Wi-Fi look like chalk on slate in comparison. WiMax in a nutshell uses airwave bandwidth beyond that of ordinary wireless networks and covers vast areas....
- Tags: Network, Broadband, University Corp., Wireless, Northern Michigan University, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
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