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Microsoft Office 365, Hotmail and SkyDrive go down

...reliability. If you want a cost-effective solution, you can't expect five-nines reliability. – Andy Buss, analyst "We have completed propagating our DNS configuration... Read more

9 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner
iVMS Mobile Edition 1.2.1

iVMS Mobile Edition 1.2.1

...Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE). It aggregates massive amounts of data into a single, five-nines (99.999%) measurement that gives providers an instant QoS gauge of... Read more

4 March, 2011
Operating System Support for Massive Replication

Operating System Support for Massive Replication

...service hosting sites advertise an availability of "Four nines" (99.99%) or "Five nines" (99.999%), the end-to-end service availability (as perceived by... Read more

1 January, 2011

Company touts crash-proof servers

...between companies such as Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard to achieve "five-nines" reliability -- servers that work 99.999 percent of the time, or... Read more

11 May, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

Motorola joins Linux hit parade

...HA Linux will offer 99.999 percent availability, a rating commonly called "five nines" that will amount to no more than five minutes of downtime... Read more

7 March, 2000 by David Raikow

Stratus launches first fault-tolerant dual-core servers

If you want more reliability in your systems then add some more cores, says Stratus, which is offering fault-tolerant servers with Intel dual-core chips Read more

24 January, 2006 by Colin Barker
Helping Those With Vision Loss With <endeca_term>Five Nines</endeca_term> of Uptime, Thanks to the HP BladeSystem

Helping Those With Vision Loss With Five Nines of Uptime, Thanks to the HP BladeSystem

CNIB has been providing community-based support, knowledge, and a national voice to ensure that Canadians who are blind... Read more

1 January, 2010
Beyond <endeca_term>Five Nines</endeca_term>: The New Age of

Beyond Five Nines: The New Age of "Uber Reliability

Performance figures are important because they directly impact a service provider's or end user's bottom line in a... Read more

1 February, 2009

Managed Care Provider Hits "Five Nines" Uptime With HP Virtualization Solution

Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Tampa, FL, WellCare Health Plans, Inc. is a provider of managed care services... Read more

1 June, 2008

Internet downtime still up there

The fabled five nines of Internet uptime is just that according to Steve Broadhead, director... Read more

23 February, 2007

Neverfail offers resiliency for BlackBerrys

Resilient computing supplier now aims to offer five-nines reliability for portable devices, starting with the BlackBerry Read more

30 June, 2006 by Colin Barker
Brigham and Women's Hospital Chooses 3com for Patient-Monitoring Network to Maintain Highest Quality Care

Brigham and Women's Hospital Chooses 3com for Patient-Monitoring Network to Maintain Highest Quality Care

Most IT environments aim for five-nines reliability, which requires at least 99.999% uptime (or just five... Read more

1 August, 2009
IP Fast Reroute With Failure Inferencing

IP Fast Reroute With Failure Inferencing

Five nines availability is being expected from IP networks due to the growing... Read more

31 August, 2007

E-tail sites failing the Christmas test

Five nines up time? You'd be lucky... While e-tailers will doubtless... Read more

19 December, 2003 by Will Sturgeon

Dell site goes down during Xmas rush

Try explaining 'five-nines up time' to a crying child who didn't get the... Read more

12 December, 2002 by John G. Spooner

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