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- Reliability
- The trustworthiness to do what the system is expected or designed to do. Reliability metrics include the following averages:POFOD probability of failure on demandThe likelihood that the system will...
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- Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3; includes Google contact sync (updated)
- Apple today released Mac OS 10.5.3 via Software Update advisory. The 10.5.3 Combo Update weighs in at 536MB while the regular 10.5.3 Update is 420MB. The 10.5.3 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Issue, Reliability, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- More on the Microsoft Office 2008 12.0.1 update
- My co-hort David mentioned yesterday Microsoft's Mac BU just released the Office 2008 for Mac 12.0.1 Update which contains suite-wide stability, security and performance improvements. I've been having some weird issues with Office 2008 for Mac since it came out. Including: Certain documents crash...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Update, Issue, Microsoft Corp., Stability, Reliability, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Desktops, Microsoft Excel, Word Processors, Apple Mac OS X, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- La Poste in France Selects Allied Telesis for Their Network Upgrade, Achieving the Reliability and Security Necessary for the Postal Service Providers
- La Poste, the French postal service, recently added new sites and services to their existing and extensive business. As their network equipment and systems were showing signs of age, La Poste decided to upgrade their network solution in order to continue providing a reliable and secure service to their many...
- Tags: Network Upgrade, Security, Network, Reliability, Allied Telesis, Networking
- Case studies 2008-03-05
- Tribunal Supremo Electoral Improves Speed and Reliability of Vote Processing
- The Tribunal Supremo Electoral Supreme Electoral Court is the highest body that oversees voting in Ecuador. Supreme Electoral Court wanted to implement a reliable high-availability IT infrastructure to guarantee transparency and reliability of information during electoral processes and create a robust voter database for timely updating and use in elections....
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Oracle Corp., Reliability, High-availability, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- First Look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 3
- What's the best browser? That's a question I get asked all the time. For years now I've been pretty non-committal when it came to taking sides in the browser wars - after all, a browser is a browser and it's what's displayed in the browser window that matters, not the...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Beta, Web Browser, Reliability, Web Browsers, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Apple Security Update (for OS X Server 10.3.9) (dmg)
- The 10.3.9 Server Update delivers overall improved compatibility and reliability for Mac OS X Server v10.3 and is recommended for all systems. Improvements include reliability of Open Directory authentication requests, and Active Directory integration; AFP performance when listing large files and directories; update to Cyrus version 2.2.10 for more reliable...
- Tags: Security, Mac OS X Server, Apple Inc., Reliability, Apple Mac OS X, E-mail, Ethernet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Online Communications, Networking
- Software downloads 2007-12-13
- The Principles of Electronic Agreement Legal Admissibility
- There are five principles that contribute directly to the legal admissibility of an electronic agreement: the reliability of an electronic signature, the reliability of the act of signing, the state of mind of the individual at the time of signature, the requirement to capture and retain material information in a...
- Tags: Agreement, Reliability, ProofSpace
- White papers 2006-09-09
- Bluetooth Broadcasting Performance: Reliability and Throughput
- This paper studies the performance of Bluetooth broadcasting scheme. The transmission of a Bluetooth broadcast packet is repeated several times to increase the reliability of broadcast. The paper analyzes the effects of baseband ACL packet types, each of which has a different size and error protection scheme, on the broadcast...
- Tags: Reliability, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2006-02-19
- Tradeoffs Between Density, Reliability and Total Cost of Ownership in Power Systems
- As vendors strive for initial sales advantage, design for smaller/lighter/cheaper is invariably hotter, denser and less reliable, to the detriment of the primary system goals of maximum performance and reliability while minimizing total cost of ownership. As these attributes are pushed, the designer is often obliged to reduce the number...
- Tags: TCO, Reliability, Tradeoff, TDI, Roi/Tco, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Sales
- White papers 2006-01-19
- Avaya IP Office Solution Provides Columbia University Medical Center With Valuable Lesson
- As one of the top research facilities internationally, Columbia University needs secure, reliable communications to link leading researchers to both colleagues and critical data. The goal was to provide top global research organization with new communications solution that is highly reliable, redundant and secure, providing new communications services for employees...
- Tags: Columbia University, Reliability, Avaya Inc., Avaya IP Office Solution, Network Technology, Networking
- Case studies
- TechNet Webcast: Overview of New and Improved Reliability Features in Windows Vista (Level 200)
- This webcast explains the new reliability features and improvements in Windows Vista. The webcast explains how end users define reliability, and how system downtime affects them and then examines the different attributes of reliability and how they are addressed in Windows Vista.
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Vista, Reliability, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- TechNet Webcast: Reliability Enhancements in Windows Vista (Level 200)
- This webcast describes the reliability features in Windows Vista. The webcast begins with a look at how end users define reliability and how system downtime affects them and it examines the different attributes of reliability, and explains how those factors have been addressed in the reliability goals for Windows Vista....
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Vista, Reliability, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- TechNet Webcast: Reliability Features in Windows Vista (Level 200)
- This webcast explains the new reliability features and improvements in the Windows Vista operating system. The presenter describes how users define reliability and explore how system downtime affects them. The presenter also examines the different attributes of reliability and explains how reliability is addressed by advancements in Windows Vista. The...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Vista, Reliability, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- MSDN Architecture Webcast: Acks and NAcks: Why We Need the Principles of TCP/IP Reliability in SOAP (Level 200)
- A key feature of Windows Communication Foundation (formerly code-named "Indigo") is the concept of building reliability into the message infrastructure through SOAP. Security, reliability, and transactions are all desired features in the Web services stacks. This webcast explains why and when the user needs reliability and how the user can...
- Tags: TCP/IP, Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Windows Communication Foundation, Simple Object Access Protocol, Reliability, SOAP, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts
- U.S. Bank Entrusts Streamlined Global Wire-Transfer System to HP NonStopPayments Solution
- U.S. Bank, a major U.S. financial holding company, sends and receives more than 1 trillion dollars in wire transfers per month. Reliability is critical, because wire transfer is the largest live-payment system in the bank and requires the most robust platform available. When the bank's IT vendor announced it planned...
- Tags: Bank, Hewlett-Packard Co., Reliability, U.S. Bank, Financial Services
- Case studies
- Modeling the Performance of Flooding in Wireless Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks
- One feature common to most existing routing protocols for wireless mobile ad hoc networks, or MANETs, is the need to flood control messages network-wide during the route acquisition and maintenance process. Flooding of control messages may result in redundant broadcasts and cause serious contention and collision problems in MANETs. This...
- Tags: Performance, Network, Reliability, Modeling, University Of California, Wireless, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers
- TechNet Webcast: Windows Vista Reliability Improvements (Level 200)
- This webcast looks at the reliability features in the Windows Vista operating system. This webcast begins with a look at how users define reliability and describe how system downtime affects them. This webcast examines the different attributes of reliability and explain how those factors have been addressed in the reliability...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Vista, Reliability, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
Additional Resources
- Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux
- Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...
- Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Mandrake, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable
- Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be ReliableWow, you know it is bad when...You know it is bad when one of your most fervent fanboys tells you to stay away from an Apple service![i]The planned iDisk File Sharing featured was delayed[/i]More vaporware from Apple. Sounds like once again, they've...
- Tags: Desktops, Groupware, MobileMe, Mossberg
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Parallels releases Parallels Server for Mac
- I almost missed Parallels' announcement of Parallels Server for Mac. I didn't speak with company representatives. All I saw was a press release. It was nearly lost in a huge pile of other mail in my inbox. Although there are several virtual machine software products that support...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Virtual Machine, Parallels Server, Parallels Management Console, Toolset, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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