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Stratus to launch SMP high availability software
Blog Stratus is well-known for its high availability servers - these work by putting a pair of servers side-by-side and keeping everything, from the CPU downwards, in complete lockstep. Did you know that keeping two multi-core systems in lock-step was...
[October 7, 2009, 12:20]
Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability
Blog The fact that you have a network means that someone has invested in availability. All a firewall does is restrict access, so this is anti-availability isn't it? Integrity of information is required to make sure data remains the same in any...
[September 18, 2007, 19:53]
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Beta 2 hits MSDN
Blog General availability apparently follows the day before Thursday’s official Windows 7 launch on October 21 and the final product is now expected on 22 March 2010. I glossed over the point in my first paragraph here, but they key part of this news...
[October 19, 2009, 17:00]
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Blog Moreover, by bundling newly added live migration and high availability features into the free server it’s hoping to win converts from the VMware camp, although it may not be as simple as that. The really big changes, however are the ability to move...
[September 7, 2009, 19:40]
Skype vs. 3G iPhone
Blog They list "Sharing your availability and mood message" - in fact, Skype has tremendous problems with accurately showing availability (or presence), to the point where in many cases it is basically random information with no real significance.
[June 11, 2008, 14:57]
Should developers care about e-commerce?
Blog The most annoying thing I find is when I’ve looked up a couple of products, checked for their availability at a local store, changed my mind, looked for something else and then found that the previous items are still in my cart.
[July 2, 2008, 13:23]
Four considerations before deploying Microsoft OCS2007
Blog For Presence to be effective the various devices that impact on our availability to communicate need to share, or federate, information. For those not familiar, Presence provides a visual indication of a user’s availability and preference for contact.
[November 3, 2008, 9:06]
Practical Implications of VoIP Reseller Program
Blog The easy availability of high speed Internet at a place is also beneficial for the growth of such services. Thus, all the facilities of the VoIP reseller programs such as call forwarding, conferencing, and video calling - to name a few - depends on...
[May 2, 2008, 10:03]
Information Interoperability
Blog What it means information availability seems to be quite obvious, if you don’t ask yourself how. So the information availability depends on the document availability. From an economic point of view this means reducing the costs due to imperfect...
[October 14, 2008, 15:27]
Head in the Cloud
Blog Running kit in-house whilst meeting the business needs of more security and more availability is costly and a pain. Moving the kit to purpose built data centres that will ensure availability and security and still allow you the access you require...
[December 5, 2008, 15:45]
Top 10 Tips for Server and Storage Virtualisation
Blog Increase system availability Virtualisation allows you to get more from your infrastructure; replacing the rigid, high cost, high power consuming aspects of physical hardware, with the flexible, scalable and high availability properties of...
[July 27, 2009, 9:17]
How do we fix the UK government’s IT woes?
Blog We could then have looked at the XML templates that would be required to exchange information on bed availability, on consultant skills and availability, on waiting list times, on GPs moving records from themselves to consultants, hospitals and...
[August 20, 2009, 8:06]
A New Virtual Reality
Blog In fact, to have an incredibly powerful, high availability server environment to call your own - without the pain of owning it. In terms of accelerating the availability of IT resources, cloud-based virtual servers can be brought on-line via the UK...
[July 8, 2009, 11:01]
VMware aims for datacentre unity
Blog High availability and fault tolerance are key to peace of mind if a virtual environment is to replace a physical one. Adding to the high availability story is vSphere's HotAdd feature, which permits the alteration of VM settings on the fly.
[June 1, 2009, 16:34]
Orange mobile internet was down over weekend
Blog The operator Orange has acknowledged the lack of availability of its mobile internet and WAP services over the weekend. The length of time during which its customers could not access the internet through their handsets remains uncertain, although...
[March 9, 2009, 15:42]
HP launches SkyRoom HD videoconferencing system
Blog HP has announced the availability and pricing for SkyRoom, its HD video conferencing system for workstations. First shown in March, SkyRoom has been in beta since - but is now available for download for $149.
[September 22, 2009, 16:31]
More Azure details come out, many more questions remain.
Blog Microsoft has revealed more details of its Azure cloud service, including availability and how - although not how much - it will charge. In an FAQ document on its website, the company says that Azure will be available in the second half of 2009.
[October 31, 2008, 16:05]
Mobile/Cellular Step Up in Switzerland
Blog I have to start this by saying I have no idea how any of this information compares to mobile data availability and speed anywhere else in the world. My intention here is just to relate what is happening in Switzerland, and hope that it might be...
[May 27, 2008, 18:29]
BBC squares up to operators over iPlayer
Blog Next Wednesday the BBC and Nokia will be launching the iPlayer on the N96, as a kickoff for the media player's eventual availability across a variety of phones. At yesterday's Westminster eForum on mobile regulation, the Beeb's mobile "controller...
[September 26, 2008, 17:10]
Skype 4.0 Beta 2 Available... Maybe...
Blog Figuratively speaking, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting some kind of article blaring about its availability. The Skype PR machine has swung into action again. Except, uh, the link that they all give, to the Skype Windows Beta Download...
[October 2, 2008, 15:23]
