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Dealing with the worst-case scenario
News "The Worst-Case Scenario", or a total loss of all data-centre structures and systems, is the last thing any of us wants to think about. However, it is entirely possible that such a disaster could hit your organisation, as was shown in the US during...
[November 28, 2005, 10:50]
Forrester revises IT spending predictions
News Forrester Research on Wednesday revised its best-case-worst-case scenario for US tech spending. That said, Bartels is hoping companies will use Forrester's revised best-case-worst-case scenario update to make conservative plans for their businesses.
[October 16, 2008, 9:51]
What he said ...
Talkback The "Worst case scenario" is exactly the thing you must examine. The MP for Sheffield Brightside said the government had been outflanked by those putting the "worst-case scenario", and that those who were "scared" by ID cards had, in public forums...
[May 6, 2009, 16:24]
Economic woes could cost IT sector £100bn
News The company said that a worst-case scenario projection could be a global slowdown that would "reduce worldwide IT spending between 2001 and 2003 by as much as $150bn (£106bn), with $50bn (£35.4bn) less demand from Europe".
[July 2, 2001, 12:10]
Ensuring your business survives disaster
News Every disaster recovery (DR) expert understands the importance of stressing the potential of the worst-case scenario when speaking to clients. It's vital that all disaster recovery plans address the worst-case scenario.
[June 29, 2005, 14:30]
The interview: Strategies for fielding common questions
News Goofing up on an interview can not only cost you a job offer; in the worst-case scenario, it can also make you feel like a complete idiot. As we all know, it's the interview that gets you the job. But for most of us, interviews are no walk in the...
[May 31, 2002, 14:38]
Ensuring Data Integrity With Asynchronous Replication
White Papers This white paper outlines the key considerations for preserving data consistency and integrity during a worst-case disaster recovery scenario, and the essential capabilities that the data storage infrastructure must provide to ensure successful...
[September 29, 2005, 3:00]
Documenting Existing Architectures: Tips for Wrestling Order From Chaos
White Papers In fact, software architects are commonly called in for the worst-case scenario: the long overdue documentation of a large architecture consisting of dozens (or hundreds) of interdependent systems. Documenting an architecture one is building from...
[May 9, 2008, 1:02]
Coexistence Analysis of Bluetooth and Cellular UMTS in the 2500-2690 MHz Band
White Papers The objective of the work discussed in this paper is to analyze the performance of the BT receive mode in terms of user satisfaction and outage probabilities for indoor use as worst case scenario. The 2500-2690 MHz band has been identified as...
[May 24, 2006, 1:00]
Recovery Toolbox for Access
Downloads Fortunately, there is a remedy for the problem of damaged databases that will make sure you will always be able to recover all or most of your data even in the worst case scenario. Being by far the most popular database management application on...
[June 5, 2009, 15:15]
Future Trends in Virus Writing
White Papers We have no way to determine which ones will be actually used in the near future, therefore we must assume a worst-case scenario and get prepared against all of them - thus we shall try to list all of them here.
[May 18, 2009, 9:11]
The Worst-Case Capacity of Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers The key application scenario of wireless sensor networks is data gathering: sensor nodes transmit data, possibly in a multi-hop fashion, to an information sink. This paper derives the first scaling laws describing the achievable rate in worst-case...
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
Don't fear the Sober, just prepare for it
News The worst case scenario is that machines aren't checked, and they pull down code that is executed on the machines. Best case scenario, the impact will be small," he said. Security administrators need not worry about the effects of the predicted...
[December 12, 2005, 12:25]
Economic uncertainty foils Gartner forecast
News Our worst-case scenario is that IT budgets may end up declining globally, but would likely not go anywhere beyond the negative 2.5 percent," Sondergaard said. We call it the best-case scenario. Analyst firm Gartner has found itself short of an...
[November 11, 2008, 12:54]
Putting a price on disaster planning
News Incorporating such a system means you can tell upper management that the DR solution is part of the company's everyday data systems, not just something to use in a worst-case scenario that you hope never occurs.
[July 14, 2005, 13:35]
Spam marks double figures
News In a worst-case scenario, spammers may now work hand-in-hand with overseas organised crime groups, employing Trojan-horse attacks that can turn PCs into "zombie" machines that spew out spam under the noses of their unwitting owners.
[April 13, 2004, 10:35]
WorldCom crisis shakes customers' faith
News Many large companies have several providers and are now making sure those alternative networks can serve as ample backup in a worst-case scenario. Separately, the US Justice Department said it is reviewing the case.
[June 27, 2002, 12:11]
McAfee antivirus update damages NT 4.0
News In one worst-case scenario made very real, System Administrator Craig Hackl reports distributing the 4120/4110 upgrade to 130 workstations on a Windows NT network and having to reinstall the OS on every PC.
[December 19, 2000, 14:35]
Blunkett: UK losing faith in ID cards
News The MP for Sheffield Brightside said the government had been outflanked by those putting the "worst-case scenario", and that those who were "scared" by ID cards had, in public forums, put forward a better case than that of the government.
[May 1, 2009, 17:08]
US Army attacked via new Windows flaw
News The incident nearly embodies a worst-case scenario for how a vulnerability should be discovered. In this case, Microsoft learned of the vulnerability after online hackers used the flaw to breach the security of a customer's Web servers last...
[March 18, 2003, 7:43]
