Easynet users suffer 10 days of outages
News Customers of the ISP's POP3 email services have suffered downtime and delays since 23 January. She said that typical downtime for affected customers was around an hour. Easynet on Friday finally resolved a series of national email outages, which...
[February 2, 2007, 12:08]
The Microsoft MVP Guide to Exchange Availability: Ten Rules that Will Save Your Job
White Papers Because of Exchange's reliance on a complex ecosystem of software, hardware, directory, storage, network and datacenter resources, any technical problems can lead to email downtime. With email serving as a mission-critical application for today's...
[January 5, 2007, 11:34]
Google extends reliability promise to all Apps
News According to Radicati Group research, companies using Novell GroupWise, IBM Lotus and Microsoft Exchange for their email have somewhere between 66 and 150 minutes of downtime per month. But Glotzbach took pains to persuade people that downtime is...
[October 31, 2008, 10:03]
BlackBerrys and PDAs harm work/life balance
News A recent survey by RIM found an average BlackBerry user converts one hour of downtime to productive time each day and ups their overall team efficiency by 38 percent. Alan Shrimpton, IT director at Avon and Somerset Constabulary, said: "I can now...
[July 19, 2007, 7:44]
Bulldog fixes broadband problems
Talkback On the other hand, a friend of mine changed from his old ISP to UK Online (8 Megs, 500 GB cap), and the downtime was no more than 2 hours. Got the internet back after 8 days of downtime, and now the router keeps on disconnecting.
[July 1, 2005, 20:55]
Email failure 'worse than divorce'
News According to the study, 4 percent of IT managers said that when unplanned downtime in email systems occurs, it takes less than one hour to restore. For many information technology managers, a weeklong failure of the corporate email system under...
[July 29, 2003, 8:31]
Lack of email 'more traumatic than divorce'
News Three-quarters of all IT managers feel that their job security would be sliding off a cliff if there was any email downtime. And 24 hours of downtime would have one in five IT managers expecting to be carrying a bin liner and phoning their friends...
[June 5, 2003, 13:42]
The Business Case for High Availability Email
White Papers As email becomes a more critical component of every enterprise, the consequences of downtime are becoming worse. Yet, email outages continue to occur despite organizations’ increasing efforts to prevent these with complex and costly infrastructure.
[March 21, 2005, 15:28]
Protecting Critical Human Services With the Symantec Email Security and Availability Solution
White Papers Slowed by network downtime due to security incidents, Mission Australia turned to Symantec for a comprehensive email security and availability solution. Since solution deployment, network disruptions caused by successful attacks have been stopped...
[December 23, 2006, 0:00]
A Framework for M-Commerce: Wireless Commerce Solutions
White Papers This paper covers the impact of downtime in today's business world, the best practices for implementing DNS, the ways a robust DNS can help prevent downtime, and a guide to estimating the level of return on an improved DNS.
[August 4, 2006, 1:00]
Making Citizen Information Safer, and County Operations More Efficient, Thanks to Security From Symantec and Novacoast
White Papers As a result, the county is realizing significant savings in annual security expenses, blocking spam to reduce incoming email by 60 percent, and has had no downtime due to threat intrusion in 2 1/2 years.
[August 29, 2006, 0:00]
Comparing Email Management Systems That Protect Against Spam, Viruses, Malware and Phishing Attacks
White Papers Systems designed to protect email systems and users from spam, viruses, malware, phishing attacks and other threats must be extremely effective, they must operate with virtually no downtime and they must be easy to manage.
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Achieving High Availability With Symantec Enterprise Vault
White Papers It is proud to provide "Cluster Aware" support for both Veritas Cluster Server and MSCS, in addition to providing an application-level high availability solution that can reduce downtime to only a few minutes.
[August 5, 2009, 1:21]
IronPort Provides an Education in Email Security
White Papers However, previous solutions suffered from a low capture rate, false positives, occasional crashes (resulting in long periods of downtime) and unmanageable content filtering. In late 2005, Weber School District installed an IronPort C30 email...
[February 21, 2009, 0:24]
Geodesic Systems Uses eMail-Lead Grabber to Automate Processing of All email and Maintain a Central Information Repository
White Papers Geodesic Systems provides Application Reliability Management to reduce downtime and improve service levels while driving down costs. Geodesic Systems learned about eMail-Lead Grabber from GoldMine Success Newsletter and downloaded an evaluation copy.
[March 24, 2009, 0:20]
Antivirus flaw crashes Exchange servers
News Customers that haven't applied the patch will want to schedule some immediate downtime to do the administration," said a technician familiar with the problem. The vulnerability causes the GroupShield software to crash -- corrupting the Exchange...
[June 13, 2003, 8:06]
Passport may be key to MSN Messenger outage
News I apologise for this unusually lengthy period of downtime, and assure you that we are trying to restore sign-in availability as soon as possible. Passport accounts are tied to an existing email address.
[July 6, 2001, 9:16]
Top 10 Tips for Data Recovery
Blog A well planned data recovery strategy can deliver improved resilience with predictable costs and no unscheduled downtime. Assessment for data recovery calls for you to consider the maximum amount of downtime you can afford for any system before the...
[July 20, 2009, 17:45]
Botnets lead way in spam charge
News At its peak, Cutwail had an army of 1.5 to two million active bots, but the shutdown of Californian ISP Pricewert earlier this month caused the botnet to have a downtime of several hours. Spam made up 90.4 percent of all email traffic in June, with...
[July 1, 2009, 12:57]
Must Read: ZDNet readers on BT Pt III
News Secondly, we received notification of downtime yesterday, with only about two hours notice. Furthermore, unscheduled downtime occurred this morning. I registered months ago , I got an email from them early September saying they were ready to roll...
[November 24, 2000, 7:02]



