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- Uptime
- The time during which a system is working without failure. Contrast with downtime. See availability.
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- Site Uptime Network experiences
- IT and Facilities don't speak the same language and yet must work together. by Dan Kusnetzky
- Tags: Network, Uptime, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Uptime Institute Seminar
- I'm on my way to the Uptime Institute's How to Plan, Justify, and Manage a Major Data Center Project seminar in Atlanta, GA. I hope to meet some of the attendees as well as members of the Institute's staff. Who is the Uptime Institue? Here's how the Institute...
- Tags: Data Center, Uptime, Uptime Institute, Institute, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Google: Aiming for 99.99 percent uptime with business Gmail
- 99.99% uptime is a marketing/statistics trickStatistically, Google can say they have a goal of 99.99% uptime, but the question remains, over what period of time? If it's over the course of a year, Google could have just shy of 9 hours per year of downtime and still be able to...
- Tags: uptime, Google Inc., Google Gmail
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Google: Aiming for 99.99 percent uptime with business Gmail
- Google executives addressed recent Gmail outages and noted that the company is currently running at a 99.9 percent reliability rate. The goal: Be at 99.99 percent by the end of the quarter. Speaking at a powwow with reporters, Google Sergey Brin spent a bit of time talking...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Uptime, Sergey Brin, Outage, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Telecom to Cut Operating Expenses by 62 Percent, Power Consumption by 80 Percent
- Warid Telecom International, a mobile telecommunications company, wanted to maximize uptime and energy efficiency in its call centers in Pakistan. To improve operations, it is deploying a virtual desktop infrastructure based on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V. Warid Telecom increased uptime to 99.9 percent, cut support time by 40...
- Tags: Power Consumption, Virtual Desktop, Uptime, Telecommunications, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- System builders still waiting for Windows 7 tools
- So is this any different from other Windows launches?Just curious if this is is a departure from the past or business as usual.Exploits...Well, 1 operating system and one platform leads to complete outages when it is exploited.There is no need to require MS Windows on the desktop when you can...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, tool, uptime, Microsoft Windows, command line, System Builders, Microsoft Corp., desktop, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- 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
- New Cost-Saving Online Fax Solution Offers Increased Uptime and Improved Usability
- Concord Technologies, a leading online fax service provider, took advantage of new, robust features in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, such as database availability groups and personal archiving, to provide an enhanced online fax solution. Concord Fax Online for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 offers customers cost savings, greater availability, and easier...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, Cost Savings, Uptime, Microsoft Corp., Fax, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Marketing Firm Optimizes Infrastructure to Cut IT Costs, Boost Uptime
- R.L. Polk is one of the largest consumer marketing firms in the United States and a leading provider of automotive marketing information. To keep up with annual business growth of 30 percent and remain focused on delivering new data services, Polk needed to reduce the time spent deploying and managing...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Server, Infrastructure Inc., Uptime, IT Cost, R.L. Polk, Data Centers, Storage, Marketing Research, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-08-07
- Garmin International Inc. Improves Demand Management System Uptime by 40%
- Garmin International Inc. wanted to replace legacy demand management application, that was due to retire, with a next-generation solution and streamline application administration with a more user-friendly demand management tool. The challenge was to minimize spreadsheet-based processes and improve scalability. Garmin International Inc. implemented Oracle's Demantra Demand Management to 40...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Demand Management Inc., Garmin International Inc., Uptime, Productivity, Sales Force Management, Workforce Management, Sales, Human Resources
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Web Hosting Company Expects to Improve Uptime and Reduce IT Management Costs
- The Easily division of Group NBT, which provides Internet-based services, wanted to reduce the time it spent on troubleshooting and routine support tasks. It also sought to increase the availability of Web sites in its shared-hosting environment. To meet these needs, Easily is implementing a Web server farm based on...
- Tags: Web, IT Administration, Information Technology, Environment, Uptime, Microsoft Corp., Web Hosting, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- Maximize Uptime, Performance and Savings with UNIX
- Learn about improving service, reducing cost and managing risk with Unix. More easily manage servers, better align IT and business operations, and reduce energy costs while improving processing flexibility and availability with a complete suite of management and high availability solutions Join this live...
- Tags: Performance, Information Technology, High Availability, Server, Uptime, UNIX, Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Management
- Webcasts 2009-06-03
- Banking on Uptime With HP ProLiant Servers and ClearPointe
- For more than 50 years, a financial institution with a strong hometown presence in rural America has provided a full range of banking services to individuals and businesses. Many of its customers prefer dealing with a hometown bank rather than representatives of a distant corporate entity. A financial institution wanted...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial Company, Uptime, HP Compaq ProLiant, Banking, Financial Services, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Server Virtualization and Cloud Computing: Four Hidden Impacts on Uptime and Availability
- As x86 virtualization has become established and cloud computing emerges, a robust IT infrastructure actually matters more than ever. Software aspects get most of the attention partly because they are new. Despite the hype, not every technical challenge is better solved by software alone because of the tradeoffs involved. For...
- Tags: Stratus Technologies, Server, Uptime, Server Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Exterran Holdings, Inc. Improves Uptime to 99.95% With Hosted Enterprise Resource Planning System
- Exterran Holdings, Inc. wanted to unify information across the new global organization created by the merger of Hanover Compressor Company and Universal Compression Holdings, Inc., under scrutiny of investors and senior management and facilitate customer retention and improve employee efficiency. The challenge was to ensure system scalability and flexibility to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., ERP, Oil & Gas, Uptime, Enterprise Application, Exterran Holdings Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Investment, Finance, Software
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Uptime Institute (re)urges data center managers to rethink TCO equations
- What, exactly, do you and your procurement department use to calculate the cost of running a server? Chances are you've gone beyond the hardware pricetag to figure in all the service, software and maintenance costs. But does your math include the facilities capital and operational expenditures that surround that box?...
- Tags: Data Center, Server, Uptime, TCO, Chances, Uptime Institute, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
- Uptime conference will focus on strategy that marries IT reliability must-haves with energy-efficiency goals
- The economy is quite different than the last time the Uptime Institute held its Green IT Symposium, and apparently this factor is helping stalling some of the energy-efficiency initiatives that people were so excited about last year. Not surprisingly, the focus of the gathering a few weeks...
- Tags: Asset, Strategy, Energy Efficiency, Data Center, Information Technology, Uptime, Uptime Institute, IT Efficiency, Data Centers, Asset Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- Reduce Costs While Improving Reliability, Uptime, and Security
- Web hosting has never been more affordable- or more complicated. Rich media, social networking, sophisticated eCommerce platforms are all making the Internet experience incredibly dynamic and profitable. Managed hosting services as a concept promises a coordinated, comprehensive solution to address many of the time-consuming tasks facing Small- and Medium-sized Businesses...
- Tags: Security, Aplus.Net, Uptime, Web Hosting, Managed Hosting, Internet
- White papers 2009-03-24
- The race to 99.999 percent uptime: 3Tera ups the cloud SLA ante
- The race to 99.999 percent uptime: 3Tera ups the cloud SLA anteAnd when a Backbone Provider goes down?What good will 5 nines do you then? Putting enterprise, mission critical apps in the hands of an offsite vendor is a gamble. Even productivity apps - imagine no one in...
- Tags: Service level management, 3Tera Inc., uptime, SLA, downtime
- Discussion threads 2009-03-19
- The race to 99.999 percent uptime: 3Tera ups the cloud SLA ante
- Those cloud computing service level agreements are getting better all the time and that's good news for enterprise customers. 3Tera, which offers cloud software and services, unveiled a 99.999 availability service level agreement for its AppLogic Virtual Private Datacenter service. In April, the 3Tera...
- Tags: SLA, 3Tera Inc., Uptime, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
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