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Gates wants a server in every home
News In fact, you get redundancy, so even if you have physical failures you have recoverability. Having helped get PCs into people's homes, Bill Gates now wants people to bring in a server. As part of his keynote address on Sunday at the annual Consumer...
[January 8, 2007, 7:25]
IT pros advised to 'bed down' in jobs
News According to e-skills, on one hand the IT recruitment market is "going over the edge of a cliff", while on the other, the Office of National Statistics suggests there is a growing number of ICT staff in employment, and a relatively small number of...
[April 24, 2009, 15:56]
Virtualisation set for disaster-recovery growth
News The company said it is ahead of XenSource with several new features, including multi-pathing for virtual server Ethernet and fibre-channel networks, which should support better continuity and redundancy; a virtual server snapshot feature for hot...
[December 11, 2007, 9:29]
End of the road for Motorola's Bathgate factory
News We've been given frequent job-shops, and plenty of information on how to prepare for redundancy and look for a new job," company sources confirmed. The closure of Motorola's Bathgate factory on Monday shows that not even a Prime Minister can defy...
[July 23, 2001, 14:03]
Drobo Pro: a 'data robot' for SMEs
Blog As well as allowing you to mix and match disk capacities, brand and speeds (something that conventional RAID technology does not), Drobo's BeyondRAID technology also makes it simple to enable or disable dual disk redundancy — the ability to cope...
[April 7, 2009, 15:34]
Dell extends EMC alliance with 6TB array
News With the new systems, Dell says it is offering increased power redundancy, additional iSCSI ports and enhanced snapshot software — three areas that address key needs of SMEs. The market for storage among small and medium vendors is heating up again...
[April 5, 2006, 17:50]
Dead disk kills traffic flow
News Weegderg said he was unaware if further redundancy would be built into the system in the future, but that an investigation is taking place. A failed hard disk at a traffic-control centre wreaked havoc on Melbourne streets on Thursday morning.
[February 12, 2004, 7:55]
Shell accused of 'dumping' IT staff
News Transferred Shell staff will not retain their existing employment contract rights and redundancy packages under their new employers, with Shell estimating existing rights will expire after about two years.
[April 4, 2008, 9:07]
Cost and compexity sunk Dixons outsourcing deal
News It was not a redundancy situation. Electronics retailer Dixons pulled the plug on a deal to outsource its internal IT to LogicaCMG after directors got "cold feet" about the cost and complexity of the deal at the last minute.
[July 25, 2005, 9:50]
BT to shed 10,000 workers
News The spokesperson also pointed out that BT typically lost around 7,000 employees each year through workers moving to other employers, retirement and voluntary redundancy. BT plans to let go of 10,000 workers by the end of March next year, the...
[November 13, 2008, 12:25]
Wallace walks from Cable & Wireless
News Wallace could collect a redundancy of up to £2m -- C&W said the terms of his departure had yet to be negotiated. Graham Wallace chief executive of troubled telecoms firm Cable & Wireless is to leave the company.
[January 21, 2003, 13:56]
New Linux kernel expands virtualisation support
News Mesh is a network topology in which nodes act as relays for each other, providing the potential of better redundancy and higher overall throughput than in a traditional star topography. Open-source developers on Sunday released the latest stable...
[July 15, 2008, 15:59]
Seagate gives small businesses some Armor
News The drives also have "continuous and automatic backup of business-critical data on up to 50 networked computers", Seagate said, with full-system backup and RAID options for data protection and redundancy.
[March 25, 2009, 11:31]
Dixons IT outsourcing deal collapses
News Lots of people have left, others are working out their redundancy, and now we're going to have to work out how to undo that. UK electronics retailer Dixons has pulled out of a plan to outsource its UK IT operations to India, creating chaos for...
[July 21, 2005, 14:15]
FT.com to merge with FTMarketwatch.com
News This is expected to be achieved through a combination of early retirement and voluntary redundancy. Media group Pearson announced on Wednesday that it is planning to integrate financial news site FTMarketwatch.com into FT.com, the Web site of the...
[October 17, 2001, 10:43]
HP says it can reduce impact of chip defects
News The many problems Transmeta had when it came out with its 5800 Crusoe chip in 2001 were due to a lack of redundancy, many sources at the time said. HP has revealed another aspect of its crossbar switch technology that it hopes will replace...
[June 9, 2005, 12:30]
What the future holds for corporate voice telephony via WLAN
News This entails adding redundancy features, emergency power, Power over Ethernet (PoE) and quality-of-service (QOS) protection for voice traffic. What You Need to Know An organisation that combines separate strategies for IP telephony and wireless and...
[June 28, 2004, 12:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It'll be worth keeping an eye on reliability and redundancy in the system as we roll out the next big upgrade: 3G and broadband fixed wireless services. Tuesday 1/1/2002 It's 03:48 on the 1st of January.
[January 8, 2002, 8:26]
Extreme bolsters NAC offering
News This adds redundancy, so, if one server fails, the security policy remains functional. Extreme Networks has upgraded its network access control offering to help firms better secure their networks. The LAN equipment vendor has also introduced a...
[July 24, 2007, 17:46]
No spoonful of sugar for Cable & Wireless staff
Leader This is tough love indeed, unless the intention is to save on redundancy payments by provoking a wholesale exodus of all staff regardless of merit. "Congratulations, we work for an underperforming business in a crappy industry and it's going to be...
[February 28, 2006, 14:40]
