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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]
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]
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]
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]
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 16, 2007, 23:46]
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]
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]
IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Extended Edition For AIX And HACMP/ES
White Papers This facilitates the automatic switching of users, applications, and data from one system to another in the cluster after a hardware or software failure. An HA solution reduces the amount of time that an application is unavailable by removing...
[November 28, 2003, 4:08]
QIT Production Quality Management Suite
Downloads Utilize Pareto analysis to define key failure mode. Trend analysis for Sigma, Throughput Yield, and Failure Mode. This installation package include: QIT Production Quality Management System 3.0, QIT Corrective Action Management System 3.81, QIT...
[May 17, 2006, 23:01]
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]
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]
Handling Firewalls
News Finally, if your firewall is software-based, you should audit every system and application failure and every success and failure of security. Web servers, SQL servers, etc.and log all of their traffic regardless of success or failure.
[May 29, 2002, 21:14]
Have You Got Plans If Your Email Goes Down?
News If you're lucky, there will be an obvious server failure, and you'll be able to either restore from tape or fail over to a backup system to correct it. Once you recognise that a failure has occurred, the first step will need to be determining how...
[January 25, 2006, 12:50]
