Undersea cables extremely vulnerable say analysts
Blog In deep water, natural causes and/or cable equipment failure dominate; human causes are rare. The cutting, and power failure, of four or more undersea cables has had some conspiracy theorists shouting terrorist but this is the first comment I have...
[February 7, 2008, 14:36]
Employees 'more of a worry than terrorists'
News Almost two-thirds also cited hardware failure, while 59 per cent said software failure and viruses are a significant threat. And despite the potential damage of a major failure, disaster recovery is being left to the IT departments to handle with...
[October 16, 2003, 13:55]
The machine that wanted to be a mind
News Since the 1950s, when Alan Turing famously predicted that by the year 2000 machines would be able to pass as human in conversation, the field has attracted high hopes, brilliant minds and heartbreaking failure in equal measure.
[January 23, 2001, 13:45]
IT security thought to be 'not a CEO concern'
News A "failure to invest [in] and failure to enforce" information technology safety measures will lead to an increase in organisational security breaches around the world, according to advisory and research body Ernst & Young.
[October 8, 2004, 12:55]
Recovery Manager for Active Directory
White Papers Recovery Manager for Active Directory™ offers an easy-to-use solution for fast, granular, online recovery of Active Directory (AD) in the event of inadvertent modification of AD due to software failure or human error.
[December 1, 2009, 13:04]
Best Practices for Backup and Recovery
White Papers Data and system loss - from a hard drive failure, malicious attack, natural disaster, or simple human error - can happen anytime. Don't leave the business vulnerable. Make sure there is a secure recovery strategy in place.
[June 19, 2008, 1:01]
LiveVault Online Backup and Recovery Service Demo
White Papers From human error, computer viruses, hardware or software failure, power disruption, fire, or natural disaster. Data loss happens. Imagine losing the organization's priceless server data - customer data, financial records, business documents, the...
[January 4, 2007, 18:51]
Continuous Protection for Desktops & Laptops With NetBackup
White Papers As much as 25% of corporate data now resides on employee desktops and laptops, yet many companies do not provide systematic and reliable ways to recover that data in the event of human error, device failure, or even theft.
[May 1, 2008, 1:02]
VCS for VMware ESX: The Only Comprehensive HA/DR Solution for the VMware Environment
White Papers Where hardware failure may have impacted a single application, with virtualization, many applications may be affected. However, placing multiple applications on one server increases the impact of a human, software, or machine error.
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
Profiles in High Availability: Production Deployments Using Oracle HA Best Practices
White Papers First American had the CPU failure. Oracle fell victim to logical corruption caused by human error. This paper began by stating that while every business needs to plan for the worst, it won't be the hurricane, bolt of lightning, or other act of...
[February 3, 2005, 2:00]
Cloud data storage.
Talkback Even, so called, secure online storage is open to attacks by company IT departments, and there is always a risk of hardware failure resulting in data loss. Anytime a human is involved security flies out the window.
[November 19, 2009, 12:10]
FlyBackUp
Downloads In the event of hard reset, system failure or even just plain-ole' simple human error, you can then restore the whole PDA in minutes with one easy tap. Easy to use backup with ultra fast compression and encryption.
[April 5, 2006, 8:00]
IT Resiliency
White Papers However, no one, including the IT organization, may realize exactly how robust (or fragile) the underlying IT infrastructure is in terms of resiliency (that is, the ability to not fail or to quickly recover in the event of a failure).
[December 1, 2005, 0:00]
Half-Life 2 Hidden: Source mod
Downloads Time passed on, and by the mid 1990's the failure rate of the experiments had been reduced from 75% to a mere 15%, enough for Infinitum to move onto the next stage, Biological Light Refraction. In the early 1950's human genetics...
[June 23, 2005, 4:44]
Using Oracle Database 10g's Automatic Storage Management With EMC Storage Technology
White Papers It must provide protection against failure of storage hardware, such as disks and host bus adaptors. The automation of storage related tasks, reduces the risk of human error. When laying out a database, administrators must consider many storage...
[July 25, 2006, 4:57]
When Bad Things Happen to Good Projects
White Papers In the end, it is riskier for companies to try to protect themselves from glitches in enterprise software projects through ever better IT project management techniques than it is to plan for manual workarounds to get products to customers in case...
[April 28, 2006, 1:00]
First Aid Guide from MobileReference - FREE Basic Aid, First Aid Techniques, Bites Aid in the trial
Downloads Head-to-toe examination Conditions that require first aidBites: Insect and animal bites and stings | Snakebite | Spider bite | Removing an insect in the ear canalBleeding: Hemorrhage (heavy bleeding) | Nosebleed | Wounds Bone: Bone fracture...
[March 27, 2006, 7:00]
Exclusive: Egg admits security breach
News He called Egg immediately and was told it was an isolated incident caused by a software failure. UK Online bank Egg, blamed "human error" Wednesday for the security breach which allowed a user to access another customer's account.
[December 1, 1999, 13:26]
From the PlusNet Forum:
Talkback I'll reiterate that this was a catastrophic failure which we believe was caused by human error. We believe that this was human error however we are awaiting a full report from our suppliers. Hi all. Posting a new thread to discuss this as the...
[February 22, 2008, 11:13]
Context is Everything
Blog There’s a simple answer: it’s a failure of context. And how do our machines and services cope with human scale transactions that can last days, or even weeks? Separated from presentation layers and with user interfaces that bring things together...
[December 8, 2009, 23:54]



