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- Netflix back to normal; promises Saturday night movies and 15 percent off.
- Netflix, crippled by an outage that kept it from shipping movie DVDs to its customers for the better part of the week, says it has resumed normal operations. Millions of customers receive their DVDs by Saturday and the company, in a blog entry below, said it will apply a 15...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Outage, Manufacturing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Upgrade disrupts Salesforce.com
- Salesforce.com, a leading Software as a Service SaaS vendor, faced outages across parts of its network yesterday. Here's a screen capture from the company's status dashboard: The main outage lasted about six hours, as reported by the company: 4:40 am PST :...
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Outage, Sales Force Management, Sales, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Small outage at Salesforce.com, not many upset
- Compared to the furore that used to greet Salesforce.com outages, yesterday's problems on three of its eight instances — including one of the five North American instances — has aroused little ire [disclosure: Salesforce.com is a client]. eWeek's coverage illustrates how difficult it is to stir up...
- Tags: Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Source tells me: IP address glitches likely a factor in today's BlackBerry outages
- A representative of BlackBerry traffic analysis solutions provider Zenprise softwarei just got back to me with the scoop of some diagnostics that are pointing to at least one problem likely at the root of today's bad BlackBerry North American services outage: Basically there are two paths (IP...
- Tags: IP, IP Address, RIM BlackBerry, Outage, Network Technology, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Exclusive: BlackBerry outage indicated by IP address connect refusals
- A representative of BlackBerry traffic analysis solutions provider Zenprise softwarei just got back to me with the scoop of some diagnostics that are pointing to at least one problem likely at the root of today's bad BlackBerry North American services outage: Basically there are two paths (IP...
- Tags: IP, IP Address, RIM BlackBerry, Outage, Network Technology, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Data Protection Strategies Leveraging Replication
- As dependence on continuous access to critical data grows, so does the importance of avoiding service interruption. This paper examines four data protection strategies and compares their merits for the most common business continuance scenarios including providing high availability, providing effective disaster recovery, enhancing backup and restore, and data migration...
- Tags: Data Protection, Double-Take Software Inc., Replication, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Microsoft adds new features to Office Live Small Business
- Microsoft has started what is expected to be a four- to six-week rollout of new features and functionality for its Office Live Small Business service. Office Live Small Business (formerly known as "Office Live" before last year's rebranding) is a set of Web service add-ons designed primarily...
- Tags: Microsoft Office Live, Small Business, Microsoft Corp., Service, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Verizon Business announces several new IP services
- Verizon Business you once knew them as MCI has gotten real busy on the enterprise VoIP front this month. Arguably the most major announcement of services to be available in January, 2008 (almost there!) Verizon Business' Managed IP PBX service. It employs Nortel Network's IP telephony platform in...
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., IP, Telephony, Network Technology, VOIP, E-mail, Networking, Telecommunications, Online Communications, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Ensuring Secure Trading With a High Availability Infrastructure
- The German Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg LBBW is a general commercial bank operating on an international stage. It provides all of the services to be expected from a large, modern bank - including one very special, important and indispensable service: high availability. A flexible and integrated solution comprising Symantec software is enabling...
- Tags: Bank, Symantec Corp., High Availability, File Servers, Security, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-09-19
- Skype: we "don't blame Microsoft" for this "perfect storm"
- Skype's Villu Arak has just posted further clarifications on an earlier statement citing the cause of the recent, two-day Skype service interruption some understood as being precipitated by a surge of Skype re-connects after PCs worldwide automatically rebooted after a monthly Microsoft patch upgrade and install:We don't blame anyone but...
- Tags: Network, P2P, Patch Management, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- Ballmer hints at Microsoft's future in the 'cloud'
- Ballmer hints at Microsoft's future in the 'cloud'Industry Needs dictate services/local install usageI hope there is not an industry rush to judgement as far as the use of internet software services versus the traditional local install of PC software. The disaster recovery needs of any company or user will...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Apple Inc., software-as-a-service, Micro$oft, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-11
- InfoVista's VistaInsight for Servers A Windows on Your Enterprise
- Hello, I'm Roger Sakowski, one of Dan Kusnetzky's colleagues at the Kusnetzky Group. Dan and I had a conversation with InfoVista recently and this post is a quick summary of that conversation.When is an enterprise or a landscape of enterprises delivering its potential? The question is at the heart...
- Tags: Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- Does RIM owe you more than an explanation?
- Research in Motion got around to explaining its BlackBerry outage Tuesday into Wednesday, but it may be a case of too little too late in terms of customer perception. In a statement, RIM outlined what went wrong and started out...
- Tags: RIM, Personal Technology, Mobile, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- RIM Botches BlackBerry outage communication
- Research in Motions BlackBerry has had an outage since late last night, but the company response appears slow. If you dial the BlackBerry support line--877-255-2377--heres what you get: "Please be advised we are currently experiencing a service interruption that is causing...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, Research In Motion, Personal Technology, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Judge bars Vonage from using Verizon VoIP patents
- Judge bars Vonage from using Verizon VoIP patentsWow, what's going to happen to Vonage?Or, Vonage stock?Better yet, what's going to happen to Vonage customers, some of whom have Vonage as their only phone service?This is going to get interesting.Trading halted?"Vonage shares fell 6.2 percent, or 25 cents, to $3.80 shortly...
- Tags: VoIP, Vonage Holdings Corp., patent, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-23
- Is Boost Mobile fraudulently disguising telemarketing calls as service interruption notices? Could be
- Is Boost Mobile fraudulently disguising telemarketing calls as service interruption notices? Could beDo-Not-Call listsIn Wisconsin, as in many other states, there are also STATE do not call lists, and it is ILLEGAL at least here to call. I am on the Federal as well as the State DNC lists, so...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Boost Mobile, phone, telemarketing
- Discussion threads 2007-01-04
- Is Booth Mobile fraudulently disguising telemarketing calls as service interruption notices? Could be
- So, what did you do over your holidays? Mine? Well, amongst other things, I fielded a barrage of telemarketing calls that I wasnt all too happy about. Telemarketers are notoriously known for calling during dinner time. But they must see the holidays as one big long dinner time, assuming that...
- Tags: Legal, Podcasts, General, Boost Mobile
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- HP-UX 11i V3 Dynamic nPartitions: Migrating a Cell Between Partitions
- Floating cells on HP Integrity servers running HP-UX 11i v3 migrate among partitions to satisfy spikes in application demand, for maximum resource utilization with no service interruption.
- Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle11i, Cell, UNIX, Operating Systems, Databases, Servers, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Webcasts 2007-01-01
- HP-UX 11i V3 Dynamic nPartitions Migrating a Cell: Migrating a Cell Between Partitions
- Floating cells on HP Integrity servers running HP-UX 11i v3 migrate among partitions to satisfy spikes in application demand, for maximum resource utilization with no service interruption.
- Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle11i, Cell, UNIX, Operating Systems, Databases, Servers, Processors, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- Webcasts 2007-01-01
- How do I... Configure a network to use demand dial routing?
- Using a dial-up connection is rarely desirable. However, in the event of a connectivity outage having a slow dial-up connection is much better than having no connection at all. In this How do I... download, Brien Posey explains how you can create a demand dial interface that will establish a...
- Tags: Network, Dial-up Connection, Manufacturing
- Download resources 2006-12-07
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