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Uptime: The time during which a system is working without failure. Contrast with downtime. See availability.; Full Uptime Definition >>

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Twitter's to-do list: Become obsessive about uptime: The big news in the blogosphere is that Twitter's lead architect, Blaine Cook, has left the company. Here's a chance for Twitter to add another scalability guru to become industrial strength. Silicon Alley Insider reported that Cook has left Twitter "just over two weeks ago." Peter Kafka...; Tags: Uptime, Twitter, Blaine Cook, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-23
MakeMyTrip.com Achieves 99.99% Uptime With Avaya's Contact Centre Solution: MakeMyTrip.com wanted to expand its 25-seat Contact Centre to 250 seats. Its key challenge was to find a solution that would keep its online business running 24x7 and deliver a complete customer experience. MakeMyTrip.com needed a reliable, robust and expandable solution to support its growth while still remaining cost effective...; Tags: Uptime, Avaya Inc., MakeMyTrip.com, Real Estate, VOIP, Telecommunications, Business Operations, Networking; Case studies 2008-03-01
Humble ISD's Centralized, Clustered Network Infrastructure Is Improving the Quality of Education Through 20-Fold Faster Data Access, Greater Uptime, More Reliable Data Backup and a 40% Reduction in IT Administration Time: The Humble Independent School District is named for a pioneering Texas settler, not for its approach to education. The fast-growing Humble Independent School District needed to improve network bandwidth and uptime, make data backup faster and more reliable, and reduce the time its IT staff spent on repairs and routine...; Tags: Education, Dell Computer Corp., IT Administration, Information Technology, Data Backup, Uptime, Humble Independent School District, Cluster, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Servers, Data Management, Hardware; Case studies 2008-03-01
VMware Infrastructure 3 and Stratus Servers: A Manufacturing Industry Guide to Maximizing Application Uptime and Minimizing Lifecycle Management Costs: With the increasing deployment of plant-level IT solutions including Manufacturing Execution Systems MES, the productivity of the entire facility suffers any time those systems are down. Managing the uptime and complexity of these application environments has never been more vital. But it must be done while keeping technology and staff...; Tags: Stratus Technologies, Lifecycle Management, Server, Uptime, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Manufacturing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage; White papers 2008-02-01
Maintenance of 30 Websites With 99.95% Uptime Improved Online Sales for Leading Food Processing Company: MindTree Consulting supports over 30 retail websites for various brands of Kraft Foods, a global leader in the food and beverage industry. To increase focus of internal resources and save costs, the client trusted MindTree with the work of managing and enhancing brand websites. With a proven track record of...; Tags: MindTree Consulting, Food, Uptime, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Food & Beverage, Sales Strategy, Branding, Internet, Manufacturing, Sales, Marketing; Case studies 2008-01-24

Report: Yankee Group Reports on Unix / Linux Uptime and the Reliability Woes that Plague Windows: Use this report, the Yankee Group's Global Server Operating System Reliability Survey, to make an informed choice on which servers best fit your needs. The independent, non-sponsored survey identifies the most reliable platforms. IBM AIX Unix led all server operating systems compared with HP and Sun with an average of...; Tags: The Yankee Group, Microsoft Windows, Uptime, IBM Corp., UNIX, Operating Systems, Linux, Servers, Software, Hardware; White papers 2008-01-01
Integrio Uptime Scout (exe): Understanding the importance of keeping your website's downtime to the minimum, we have developed Integrio Uptime Scout small tray application that allows you to monitor the availability uptime of your websites and notifies you if the website or the server goes down. Uptime Scout supports different notification methods, such as...; Tags: Monitoring, Uptime, Web Site, Web Site Development, Internet; Software downloads 2007-12-12
systemDashboard - Uptime Monitor (widget): systemDashboard - Uptime Monitor 1.1 keeps track of your record uptime, the previous four uptimes recorded, and your current uptime. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Monitor, Uptime; Software downloads 2007-11-06
Amazon S3 service promises 99.9 percent uptime: Amazon S3 service promises 99.9 percent uptime99.9999999999999?Lol, I've worked in a number of enterprises and though everyone loves to talk smack about high uptime the number of systems that actually hit just 99.9% taking into account planned and unplanned downtime are very rare. Sure, if you're VISA, but that's...; Tags: Service level management, Amazon.com Inc., uptime, S3 Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-10-09
Amazon S3 service promises 99.9 percent uptime: Amazon's S3 storage service is growing up and adopting a Service Level Agreement SLA. In a blog post, Amazon Web Services AWS detailed its SLA, which defines a minimum level of performance and imposes penalties if S3 all resources doesn't deliver. Amazon noted that formalizing the SLA was the...; Tags: S3 Inc., SLA, Amazon.com Inc., Uptime, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-10-09
Maximize It Service Uptime by Utilizing Dependable Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers provide excellent Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability RAS characteristics, ideal for maximizing the uptime of business-critical IT services. Highly reliable parts and a relatively low total component count minimize the opportunity for system errors. In addition, these servers include core and thread offlining capabilities,...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Uptime, Sun Sparc, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; White papers 2007-10-01
Application Center 2000 - Uptime Tool (exe): This command-line tool analyzes a single server by processing the event log to determine reliability, availability, and current uptime. The target system can be either the local system or a remote system. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Uptime, Tool, Productivity; Software downloads 2007-08-23
Uptime Institute: Long live the datacenter (thanks to an unethical Salesforce.com): Earlier this week, I attended a panel discussion that was primarily hosted by AMD but included panelists from HP, EMC, and APC and was moderated by Uptime Institute's chief analyst Bruce Taylor. The Uptime Institute earns its keep by playing host to the community of people and technologists with an...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Service Provider, Uptime, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-08-17
XRoads Networks Delivers Over 99.999% Uptime for a Top Risk Management Organization1: The Bohan Group provides consultation services to assist organizations reduce risk in their daily operations. The Bohan Group wanted to guarantee over 99.999% uptime and ensure that in the event of an outage end-users have no significant perception that an outage has occurred. As a solution the group deployed XRoads...; Tags: Uptime, Risk Management, XRoads Networks, Bohan Group, BGP, Roi/Tco, Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting; Case studies 2007-07-30
SF power outage reveals disaster recovery plans need tweaking: SF power outage reveals disaster recovery plans need tweakingThat's what I was thinking as wellGranted, the major web service providers (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) all have more robust, redundant systems in place than a lot of smaller players. But even then I can't count how many times I've tried to...; Tags: Data centers, Manufacturing, E-mail providers, cloud concept, disaster recovery, outage, downtime, uptime; Discussion threads 2007-07-25
Server Uptime Monitor (exe): Monitor Unlimited URLs/Web servers/websites/ IP/ IP deceives/ Network Devices. Notify, if any of URL/server/IP is not functioning, through e-mail/ mobile alerts. Run in background and can check URLs from multiple geographical locations. Most Web-based monitoring services have servers at multiple locations around the world, which check a URL simultaneously. ...; Tags: Monitor, Mobile, Monitoring, Uptime, Monitors & Displays, Servers, Hardware, Components; Software downloads 2007-07-20
Benefit From Stratus Continuous Processing Technology: Automatic 99.999% Uptime for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Environments: Stratus Technologies' family of ftServer systems has been proven to deliver industry-leading uptime of 99.999% and greater for Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments. The source of this immediate, transparent availability protection is Stratus Continuous Processing technology. Virtually any software application certified on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Release 4) operating...; Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Stratus Technologies, Fault-tolerance, Red Hat Inc., Environment, Benefit, Uptime, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware; White papers 2007-07-01
What happens when Google Reader goes dark?: Earlier today Google Reader was completely unavailable, and it's still acting flaky, which means finding out what is going on in the world I track requires visiting a lot of Web sites that I ordinarily consume in the RSS reader. Net result, my time is wasted surfing the Web for...; Tags: Web Technology, Google, General; Blog posts 2007-06-25
Distributed Virtual Data Center: Using Windows Server System and Melio FS for Dynamic Resource Allocation and 7-24 Application Uptime: Virtualization is a powerful tool for improving data center flexibility, reliability, and utilization, while reducing cost of management. By separating logical processing and storage resources from the physical hardware on which they run, virtualization can greatly improve the utility of these assets. Using Windows Server 2003 Enterprise or Data Center...; Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server System, Uptime, Allocation, Sanbolic Inc., Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management, Software; White papers 2007-06-01
Indigo Books & Music Boosts Store Uptime and Improves Customer Experience With Cisco's Intelligent Retail Network Solution: Indigo is a Canadian company committed to providing a service-driven, stress-free approach to satisfying the booklover. Frequent network outages at small format stores impacted customer service and ability to process sales. There was no visibility at the port level for head office network administrators and new point of sales terminals...; Tags: Network, Books, Indigo, Uptime, Cisco Systems Inc., Music, Networking; Case studies 2006-10-17