Whatâs Offline: Analyzing Failure Beforehand
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Should businesses replace post-mortems with âpre-mortems?â Adopt âcounterintuitive management practices?â And more...
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(Source: Symantec) The goal of this document is to discuss the threats to availability and the tools available to address them. For organizations that dont have stringent uptime requirements, many of the features described may not be useful, but for others, they may prevent the next calamity from negatively affecting their business.
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IBM&#39;s new WebSphere release, Version 6, automatically troubleshoots systems and identifies network glitches that could lead to power outages.
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As important as a physical supply chain Readers may recall that I wrote last year about Silver Creek SystemsÂ®. At that time I extolled its capabilities for product data quality (matching, cleansing and classification) through the use of semantically-based content profiling and attribute identification. This is particularly relevant when information comes into the organization in unstructured formats as most conventional data quality tools have historically been limited to support for structured information.â¦
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This article discusses how a virus outbreak will produce a few unique opportunities to examine the health of an organization's network -- and learn ways to further harden the network from future automated attacks.
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Windows security tools fail tests to see if active viruses can successfully infect the software.
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IT infrastructures have become sufficiently complex that it's a challenge to peel through the layers of abstraction and aggregate the various components that determine the recoverability of an application.
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Security researcher Christopher Soghoian reflects on the hard work that comes after finding a vulnerability.
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(Source: Ipanema Technologies)  This paper looks at the three key reasons why some applications do not perform well over the WAN. It then describes a list of pitfalls and tips that any network manager should be aware of when designing a WAN acceleration strategy. Finally, it describes how Ipanema is tackling the application performance challenge with an integrated approach covering optimization, acceleration and visibility.
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Could this be an end to broken links? New software replaces and updates links on Web pages.
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I got an interesting teaser in the e-mail this week: âStudy Suggests Nearly Half of All Leaders See a Disconnect Between Strategy and Execution.â I wonât say who sent it because they blew the execution: The so-called study wasnât posted anywhere online, and when I called the number, theyâd already left for the weekend.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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This organization fell victim to what can be described as the Achilles' heel of storage infrastructure - the intersection of technology bugs and human error. This is a highly unpredictable type of risk, and unfortunately the opportunities for prevention and avoidance are few.
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This paper from Parasoft discusses implementing the Parasoft Automated Error Prevention (AEP) Methodology into your development process with the objective of establishing fundamental development practices for a reliable Web service.
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This paper explains how the newest offering from Cognos - Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - can help organizations avoid the "Fatal Flaws" of Business Intelligence and Performance Management.  The Cognos Views are not intended to be exhaustive; rather, they are intended to act as an introduction to Cognos 8 BI and a catalyst for further reading.
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Analysis Fragmentation and US indifference
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Early Internet entrepreneurs envisioned a day when consumers would devour short bites of entertainment on their computer screens delivered over the Internet by fat broadband pipes. When the companies failed, executives blamed it on ...
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EMC says its parameter-driven software can automate fail-over operations during planned outages such as maintenance operations and upgrades, and can test disaster-restart operations without needing to write, verify and maintain custom scripts.