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Make time to review your storage network configuration
News At the time of our installation, EqualLogic also recommended, for full redundancy, two separate switches, and provided a cabling diagram for getting the best results in the event of hardware failure somewhere in the chain.
[September 28, 2006, 15:20]
The Myths of Innovation review
Reviews The answer in general is to encourage curiosity and accept failure. Lots of failure. The late American talk show host Johnny Carson used to like to ask guests how they became overnight successes. The answers invariably detailed a decade or more of...
[May 19, 2008, 8:25]
Old Fujitsu Siemens laptops to be replaced for free
News Under the Esprimo Promise deal, if the machine suffers a failure that would be covered under standard warranty terms, Fujitsu Siemens will not only repair it without charge, but will also give a complete refund of the purchase price.
[November 26, 2008, 12:55]
The Day Ahead: Dot-coms search for happy medium
News Its failure has been living up to expectations. But is a company with strong year-over-year growth and two million page views every day a failure? Commentary: Where is that happy medium for dot-com companies?
[October 9, 2000, 12:18]
Browne: MoD lost three unencrypted laptops
News However, Liam Fox, shadow defence minister, said that the loss of the laptops pointed to systemic failure within the MoD. This seems a systemic failure, not a single act of incompetence or irresponsibility.
[January 22, 2008, 10:37]
IBM pitches reliability for Regatta
News If there is a failure, the sensors "contain the failure as much as possible, so you can keep running. A database failure, for example, could be limited to a single process or a partition. The technologies will go into creating IBM's forthcoming...
[August 22, 2001, 8:44]
PostgreSQL goes enterprise this Christmas
News Point-in-time recovery allows a server to be continuously backed up, so that if a disk drive fails the database can be recovered from the point of failure. In previous versions of PostgreSQL there was no way to recover from a statement failure...
[November 29, 2004, 16:00]
Centrally managed antivirus software
News A single point of failure Because such systems store the virus signature/definition files in a single location -- usually a network server -- this server becomes a single point of failure for the entire system.
[January 8, 2003, 8:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Not EMC: "This issue was a self-induced execution failure on our part. This issue was a self-induced execution failure. Monday 10/7/2006 One of the unexpected side effects of running Ubuntu instead of Windows at work is that I'm having to answer my...
[July 14, 2006, 19:15]
Cisco Business Communications Solution review
Reviews Unfortunately the smaller ISR routers only have a single power supply, and in the event of a failure PBX functionality will be lost along with power to the handsets where PoE is employed. On the plus side, most of the routers support what Cisco...
[July 12, 2006, 10:05]
New technology to block camcorder pirates
News In tackling anti-piracy technology, Cinea is entering an arena that is littered with failure. Schumann knows the sting of failure, having poured five years into the development of Divx only to see its primary backer and distributor, Circuit City...
[October 10, 2002, 16:41]
Tips for managing IT facilities
News Failure to re-charge UPS batteries Failure to test generator and fuel levels Few of them would be likely to include less common entities such as electrical grounding, vault protection, and static electricity, among others.
[June 6, 2005, 17:35]
Freecom DataTank Gateway WLAN review
Reviews You can copy your entire PC, including the operating system, applications, user settings and all data, so, in the event of a system or disk crash, virus attack or other fatal failure, you can restore your entire PC in minutes, with no...
[October 9, 2007, 9:37]
Q&A: An IT job of Olympic proportions
News We go through a lot of "what if" scenarios -- what if we have a power failure, what if the network blows, what if the people cannot show up at the venues because of traffic or whatever? We cannot afford a power failure.
[July 11, 2003, 10:50]
Five reasons why LPIC outpaces Red Hat's RHCE
News I would have bet that Red Hat's failure rate is significantly higher than LPI's, since the real-world, hands-on aspect of Red Hat's exam tends to be the most accurate gauge of an individual's on-the-job performance capabilities.
[October 4, 2002, 19:38]
Online sales more fulfilling this year
News Still, Andersen said that figure is a significant improvement over the 25 percent failure rate reported last year. Participants in the survey attributed failure to a number of issues, including Web sites that could not handle the traffic, had...
[December 18, 2000, 9:21]
3G: What will 3G mean to you?
News Peter Bodor, public relations manager at Ericsson, argues the failure of WAP is down to the mismanagement of public expectations, but doesn't see a problem moving forward with 3G. WAP's disappointment was caused by industry failure to manage...
[August 23, 2000, 16:53]
Evidently there's a Rattled Cage in Redmond.
Blog When I retried this step, the computer didn't try to download them, it would go straight to installation and then report failure. Each time the failure point post-SP3 was when I tried to install the downloaded updates after installing SP3.
[July 30, 2008, 0:57]
Google set to woo non-Internet users with voice search
News A recent example of Google Bombing was when anti-war protesters successfully made the first result for "miserable failure" point to George Bush's official biography. Silverstein admits it is possible to affect Google's search results but he said he...
[March 24, 2004, 13:10]
IBM's eLiza: Self-healing IT
News These lights illuminate at the time of a failure. The application would remain available despite the failure. The new eLiza technologies let IBM products fix themselves, taking the human element out of the picture.
[March 26, 2002, 14:56]
