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- BlackBerry CEO: here's why there won't be any more major outages
- In an interview with eWeek, Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie thats him says the BlackBerry blackout of last month has been "unambigiously solved" and whats more, wont hapen again.eWeeks Wayne Rash noted "that the improbable combination of events, which included the failure of a minor software upgrade...
- Tags: News, Outages, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Before the world knew: insider's diary of BlackBerry service shutdown
- For two hours before the BlackBerry email outage two weeks ago, the Zenprise BlackBerry service monitoring system in place at the County of Alameda (Cal.) data center in the 1.5 million-populaton county seat of Oakland "gave us some indications connectivity was intermittent," senior server engineer Paul Hinsberg told me...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Outages, Case Histories
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- EXCLUSIVE: Major BlackBerry user knew of email glitches AT LEAST two hours before outage
- Ive been told by a third party that a Senior Server engineer at a large County in the San Francisco Bay area iwas notified days prior to the outage of intermittent BlackBerry email activity. Source then advises me that this engineer was then flagged at exactly 2:58 p.m. PT the...
- Tags: News, Outages, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Outage post-mortem: BlackBerry AND their carriers BADLY fumble outage update info
- I spent a good bit of yesterday calling carriers to obtain updates on the 14-hour BlackBerry email service outage.There were some bright points, but all in all I was not pleased with the information flow and presentation.First, let us discuss how each major U.S.-based BlackBerry carrier conveyed this data when...
- Tags: News, Uncategorized, Outages
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- Here's what probably caused the BlackBerry outage
- Colleague Marguerite Reardon has talked to several networking administrators about the BlackBerry outage.Shes just posted an analysis of how this could have happened, and what technology systems were at fault.The blame seems to be on issues at one of BlackBerrys Network Operations Centers. Probably the one in Waterloo, co-located...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Outages, News
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- BlackBerry: cause of outage "under investigation"
- Pinstacker MWPatterson received this note earlier today from BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion:The following information is current as of 09:00 on April 18, 2007. All times are EDT. On April 17, 2007, at approximately 20:15 EDT, the BlackBerry Network Operations Center NOC started investigating monitoring alerts in regards...
- Tags: Outages, News, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Reports: BlackBerry service coming back up just now
- Hayden James, who runs Pinstack, says:"Just contacted RIM moments ago they informed us that service has been restored for most BlackBerry users."They also said that they are closely monitoring systems in order to maintain normal service levels," Hayden adds.
- Tags: Uncategorized, Outages
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- EXCLUSIVE: I've just called all the major BlackBerry carriers- here's what they say about outage
- Cingular-AT&T- National outage, working on the problem, many service tickets open.. SprintNextel- At this time, nationwide data outage, no estimated time to fix. Advises against troubleshooting your BlackBerry device.Verizon- There is a current nationwide BlackBerry outage, BlackBerry customers unable to send or receive messages. BlackBerry team is working on...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Outages
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
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- LCD TVs recommended over plasma TVs in retail, Samsung and Sony top recommended brands
- LCD TVs recommended over plasma TVs in retail, Samsung and Sony top recommended brandsPlasma and LCD can fight it out all they want...I still think the best value in HD TV's is DLP.There's no other way you can get a huge 61" 1080P set with ports galore, a gorgeous picture,...
- Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, TV & Home Theater, TV, LCD, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., DLP, lamp, plasma TV, LCD TV, Sony Corp., brand
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Amazon's S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?
- Amazon's S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?It's a matter of infrastructure - and transparencyLarry,Your analysis is partially correct, but there is a second factor. Some cloud providers have taken a "you're better off not knowing" approach to the infrastructure their systems are based on. What server is your VM...
- Tags: Manufacturing, cloud computing, Down Time, outage, S3 Inc., Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- 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
- iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week wait
- According to Apple's iPhone availability tracker, the iPhone 3G is sold out nationwide. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is reporting that there's a four week wait for new stock to arrive stateside. Munster says that Apple didn't correctly predict the initial demand for the product...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Outage, 3G, Manufacturing, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Will Twitter tip in the UK first?
- Will Twitter tip in the UK first?Can Twitter Stay Afloat??I think the outages has affected Twitter's performance in tghe U.S. Twitter would have got a tremendous hit in the U.S but for the outages but even at that the figures are pretty impressive considering all the hiccups twitter is facing....
- Tags: Manufacturing, Twitter
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- New hybrid delivery security architecture
- Secure Computing's Ken Rutsky tells how to integrate Software-as-a-Service SaaS, virtualization and appliance security offerings to let users get exactly what they want. “In the past, CIOs deployed their own self-contained application architectures on their own servers and storage systems. This old model is giving way to a hybrid...
- Tags: Appliance, Software, Software-as-a-service, Platform, Information Technology, Advantage, Hardware, Model, Service, Architecture, Organization, Delivery Security Architecture, IT Security Professional, Delivery Platform, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Security, Emerging Technologies, Management, CIO, SaaS, virtualization, IT appliances, service delivery, IT management, Ken Rutsky, Secure Computing
- News items 2008-07-16
- DISH Network launches satellite, promises more HD channels
- DISH Network launches satellite, promises more HD channelsHow good is Dish's Service/Performance?I'm about ready to leave Cable again. Usability features of their Scientific Atlanta DVR boxes is very, VERY weak.How does Dish's HD DVR stack up to Tivo and the SA Sara-based boxes?RE: DISH Network launches satellite, promises more...
- Tags: DVR, Digital video, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Network technology, Dish Network, satellite, network, digital video recorder
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Measuring IT: "Operational Health"
- The subject of IT metrics is an important and sometimes controversial topic. Regardless of one's perspective, metrics do serve the valuable function of connecting business goals to IT operations. A Forrester Research report, written by Craig Symons and titled "The Five Essential Metrics...
- Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Don't doubt Deputy Dan
- Well, it would seem that Tom Ptacek may have figured out something to do with Dan Kaminsky's earlier DNS flaw, and this may actually be the vulnerability to fear that we had originally heard. Let's just say this, I've read Tom's postings on the Matasano blog for quite some time...
- Tags: DNS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- iHome iP99 (black)
- You could be forgiven for confusing one iHome iPod speaker product with another--at last count, there were nine current models, and that doesn't include the five that are just different colored housings or the sole Zune product. One of the latest models in the lineup is the iP99. It's the...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Monitors & displays, iHome iP99, Apple iPod, Apple iPhone
- Product reviews 2008-07-08
- A Twitter About Twitter
- The outages are over maybe. Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos ae putting $15 million into Twitter. "Twitter will become a sustainable business supported by a revenue model,'' promised the company's aptly named co-founder Biz Stone. Which was followed last week by Gene...
- Tags: Twitter, Manufacturing, Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Computer 'mystery outages' plague Australian Emergency Services
- A series of four "mystery outages" have forced the Department of Emergency Services in Queensland, Australia to suspend rolling out a new, $6 million computer-aided dispatch system based on TriTech Software Systems' VisiCAD product. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Outage, Computer, Department Of Emergency Service, Emergency Response Personnel, Manufacturing, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
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