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AWS service interruptions raise doubts over reliability

...and other cloud-dependent sites, and has led Reddit to question the reliability of Amazon Web Services. The period of spotty service occurred intermittently on... Read more

18 March, 2011 by Jack Clark

EMC boosts Hadoop reliability on Isilon storage

EMC has made the Hadoop open-source data analysis framework more reliable when used on EMC's Isilon NAS storage by getting rid of the single point of failure in its storage filesystem Read more

31 January, 2012 by Jack Clark

Observing reliability of journalling filesystems

Recently I helped install a series of large digital displays that have Windows 7 boxes attached to them that send the... Read more

31 May, 2011
Minimum-Energy Packet Forwarding Over Lossy Networks Under Deadline and <endeca_term>Reliability</endeca_term> Constraints

Minimum-Energy Packet Forwarding Over Lossy Networks Under Deadline and Reliability Constraints

...minimum-energy packet forwarding over multi-hop lossy networks under deadline and reliability constraints. The authors assume a routing topology in the form of a... Read more

1 March, 2012
A Novel Approach for Evaluating Software Testing Techniques for <endeca_term>Reliability</endeca_term>

A Novel Approach for Evaluating Software Testing Techniques for Reliability

One of the major goals of software testing is to increase reliability of the software. As pointed out by many studies, fault detection does... Read more

1 March, 2012
Evaluation of Topological Planarity and <endeca_term>Reliability</endeca_term> for Interference Reduction in Radio Sensor Networks

Evaluation of Topological Planarity and Reliability for Interference Reduction in Radio Sensor Networks

One of the key factors in distributed sensor networks is their reliability in packets delivery even in the event of failure of one or... Read more

22 February, 2012
A Cost-Effective Mechanism for Cloud Data <endeca_term>Reliability</endeca_term> Management Based on Proactive Replica Checking

A Cost-Effective Mechanism for Cloud Data Reliability Management Based on Proactive Replica Checking

In current Cloud computing environments, management of data reliability has become a challenge. For data-intensive scientific applications, storing data in... Read more

2 February, 2012
A Method to Identify Critical Operations in Accelerated Software <endeca_term>Reliability</endeca_term> Testing

A Method to Identify Critical Operations in Accelerated Software Reliability Testing

The foundation of the Accelerated Software Reliability Testing (ASRT) based on importance sampling is to construct Strengthened Operational Profile... Read more

1 January, 2012
Workload-aware <endeca_term>Reliability</endeca_term> Evaluation Model in Grid Computing

Workload-aware Reliability Evaluation Model in Grid Computing

To address the issue of reliability evaluation in dynamic grid environment, a workload-aware reliability evaluation model is... Read more

1 January, 2012
Identifying <endeca_term>Reliability</endeca_term>/Stability Issues Caused by File Fragmentation

Identifying Reliability/Stability Issues Caused by File Fragmentation

Discover the most common reliability and downtime phenomena associated with fragmentation and the technical reasons behind them... Read more

1 October, 2011
<endeca_term>Reliability</endeca_term>-Driven Energy-Efficient Task Scheduling for Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems

Reliability-Driven Energy-Efficient Task Scheduling for Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems

This paper proposes a reliability-driven task scheduling scheme for multiprocessor real-time embedded systems that optimizes... Read more

1 October, 2011
Discrete Software <endeca_term>Reliability</endeca_term> Growth Models With Discrete Test Effort Functions

Discrete Software Reliability Growth Models With Discrete Test Effort Functions

Number of software Reliability growth models has been proposed in this paper. A mathematical technique which... Read more

1 October, 2011
<endeca_term>Reliability</endeca_term> and Maintainability of Passive Optical Component

Reliability and Maintainability of Passive Optical Component

The reliability of the entire communications network is dependent on the reliability of each... Read more

15 September, 2011
Cooperative Sensing <endeca_term>Reliability</endeca_term> Improvement Algorithm for Primary Radio Signal Detection in Cognitive Radio Environment

Cooperative Sensing Reliability Improvement Algorithm for Primary Radio Signal Detection in Cognitive Radio Environment

This paper addresses issues on cooperative spectrum sensing reliability improvement for primary radio signal detection in a cognitive radio environment. In... Read more

4 August, 2011
Sleeping Multipath Routing: A Trade-Off Between <endeca_term>Reliability</endeca_term> and Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks

Sleeping Multipath Routing: A Trade-Off Between Reliability and Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks

In wireless sensor networks, multi-path routing is used to alleviate reliability degradation due to multi-hop transmissions over error-prone wireless channels. However... Read more

27 July, 2011

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

8 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

11 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

14 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

15 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

18 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

19 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

19 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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