To accurately measure system availability, you must monitor all components for outages, then calculate end-to-end availability. Here’s a step-by-step guide to these availability calculations. To ...

Every year, I hear dozens of horror stories from customers about server and network outages and the resulting loss of data and productivity. For a brief moment, some network users may find an outage a ...

Storage expectations in high profile or mission-critical environments command continuous and uncompromised performance with at least 99% uptime (i.e., less than 1% downtime) irrespective of all the ...

Plugging in a new system requires more than just money and making sure all the interrelated parts play well together. Two key issues that CIOs may overlook in the rush to build a more stable ...

As we approach the pervasive-computing era in which users will have round-the-clock access to information and services from any location, embedded-system designers are under growing pressure to boost ...