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Pensioners without cash after system failure
News Pensions minister Malcolm Wicks said the IT failure was "unacceptable" and wants an explanation from the Post Office, which is in charge of the technology. The latest failure is particularly worrying given the government's record over automated...
[August 25, 2004, 16:45]
Top 10 Failure Points in Information System Implementation - How to Avoid the Press
White Papers The most common failure in any information system implementation is end user rejection. Failure to acknowledge this core issue will result in failure to meet the project objectives. One must therefore acknowledge that unlike many technical projects...
[May 16, 2009, 1:17]
PC features failure alert system
News The single board Triton chipset PCI/ISA system contains an embedded microprocessor which lets users set multiple levels of alarm. Blue Chip claims the device can predict failures by signs such as overheating and power supply problems and...
[July 19, 1996, 14:50]
Email failure 'worse than divorce'
News For many information technology managers, a weeklong failure of the corporate email system under their control would be more traumatic than a divorce, according to a study released on Monday. Within just 24 hours of email system failure, almost one...
[July 29, 2003, 8:31]
Maximum Availability: Minimum Downtime
White Papers Many people have experienced the effects of some type of computer system failure. Even if one happens to have replacement equipment readily available, restoring settings, files, and programs is time consuming and these may never be restored to...
[July 10, 2009, 1:51]
Disaster Tolerance in Business Critical Environments
White Papers Disaster tolerant systems must support an availability continuum that addresses everything from single-points of failure in a single system to multiple points of failure involving many systems at several locations.
[May 26, 2007, 1:00]
Airport hit by IT glitch
News Passengers were delayed at Gatwick airport over the weekend after an IT failure caused the check-in system to stop working. A spokesman for BAA, which owns Gatwick Airport, said the failure brought down every system except those of British Airways...
[November 14, 2005, 15:40]
MTBF Calculator
Downloads Mean time between failures (MTBF) is the mean (average) time between failures of a system, the reciprocal of the failure rate in the special case when the failure rate is constant. Calculations of MTBF assume that a system is "renewed", i.e.fixed...
[April 17, 2007, 0:34]
Campaign group tries to block Vista release
Talkback Longhorn supposed to have different file system WinFS - failure.all Microsoft products and product groups supposed to have NEW PROducts working with WinFS - failure.not even close.not even .net conversion had occured in most products .MSOFFICE...
[August 13, 2005, 20:09]
Archaic PCs to blame for government e-commerce mess
News An archaic computer system is to blame for the government's failure to meet its first e-government target of buying 90 percent of routine goods and services online by March 2001, HM Treasury has admitted.
[August 17, 2001, 8:30]
The Importance of Rapid System Recovery
White Papers Administrators then need to reconfigure the system back to its pre-failure state. Failure to return promptly to a productive state could result in significant lost revenue, loss of employee productivity, not to mention a damaged reputation.
[May 9, 2008, 1:02]
Impact of Unlicensed Software on Mid-Market Companies
White Papers This paper explores this trade-off and concludes that companies with unlicensed software do not have lower IT spend, but may incur far greater risk of system failure, data loss and employee discontent.
[September 16, 2009, 1:22]
The magic that makes Google tick
News No complete system failure since February 2000 Google replicates servers, sets of servers and entire data centres, added Hölzle, and has not had a complete system failure since February 2000. Behind that, he said, comes a vast scale of computing...
[December 1, 2004, 11:15]
Will Honeycomb sweeten Sun's future?
News The disk failure side of the equation has to do with storing data across hundreds or large numbers of disks, far more than are found in currently popular RAID systems. The Honeycomb technology, which will go on sale later this year, has two goals...
[January 28, 2005, 16:40]
US flights grounded by failure of '70s-era' tech
News In the wake of a computer failure that caused delays for 646 US flights on Tuesday, the US Federal Aviation Administration plans to upgrade its decades-old technology for flight-plan processing and potentially add a third backup system.
[August 28, 2008, 11:09]
CSA IT 'a turkey from day one'
News Civil service union, the PCS, which represents many CSA staff, echoed the committee's criticisms of the massive failure of the IT system. Some of this was eventually clawed back, including a £53m penalty for EDS's failure to meet the contract terms.
[July 5, 2007, 15:15]
Gmail: When efficiency equals death
Leader Google had been hit by cascading failure. Cascading failure is well known. Diversity, flexibility, inefficiency and the expectation of failure: these are the hallmarks of reliable distributed systems.
[September 2, 2009, 14:52]
UK researchers shortlisted for €1m award
News You want to prevent a single failure from bringing down the system," said Stroud. You have to avoid a single point of trust and therefore a single point of failure," said Stroud, who is a reader in computer science at Newcastle.
[July 26, 2004, 12:25]
Satisfying the customer
News How often do you have a major system failure of multiple hours or even days in duration? When customers become vocally dissatisfied about IT performance, it suggests a systemic failure to communicate and properly set expectations with them.
[June 15, 2005, 17:15]
A System Demonstration of ST-TCP
White Papers Five experiments using this prototype are proposed to demonstrate the following useful features: (1) Client-transparent, seamless failover; (2) Insignificant performance overhead of ST-TCP during failure-free periods; and (3) An ability to...
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
