Service Availability
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Why are IT systems so unreliable?
Insight perspective IT systems are notorious for failing just when they're needed most. Can organizations do anything to fix this?
Tags: Virtualization, Security Management, Business security, Application Availability, Service Availability, application virtualization, Tony Lock, performance, Hardware, software
'Best effort' insufficient for cloud
News Cloud ecosystem needs operator participation to provide single point of blame, to win businesses' confidence in moving over, says consultant.
Tags: Service level management, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing, NTT Corp., SingTel, network, Uptime, Asia-Pacific, SLA, Service Management
'Green' mobile power offers new revenue
News Alternative power supplies can prove lucrative US$2.3 billion market for mobile operators and benefit 485 million mobile users without access to electricity grid.
Tags: Development/design, Network infrastructure, Mobile platforms/communications, Power supplies, surge suppression, Green IT, Phone, cell phone, revenue, mobile, Green IT
Boeing adds Korean Air to flight plans
News in brief Korean Air plans to offer in-flight high-speed Internet access through Connexion by Boeing, a unit of aircraft maker Boeing, the companies announced Monday.
Tags: 802.11/Wi-Fi
Delivering IT as a service
Insight City University's CIO Jerry Yu is gearing his team to deliver IT like a utility service, where the service is available to users at the flip of a switch.
Tags: IT Management
SingTel, StarHub fume over M1 marketing message
News A 10-second IDD marketing message by Singapore's second mobile operator MobileOne has got the competition crying foul.
Citi banks on tech innovation
Insight Bank seeks to keep customers happy by delivering continous innovation in technology and leveraging the Internet.
M1 fined S$5K for breach of competition code 
News MobileOne (Asia) Pte Ltd (M1), the second largest mobile operator here, was fined S$5,000 by the Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) for breach of competition code.
Cool storage tricks: VMware Site Recovery Manager
Techguide VMware Site Recovery Manager provides high availability capability between data centers. Scott Lowe has more.
Tags: Storage, Storage management, Storage software, Data backup, disaster recovery, Disaster recovery
A new storage and server environment
Techguide A SAN, servers and virtualization are all part of the major changes to computing in one organization.
Tags: Storage
IDC: Asian e-government drive hits user pit stop
News Asian authorities may have jumped on the e-services bandwagon but most of them have under-delivered on actual user adoption, says market research firm IDC.
Tags: Government
Singapore Airlines to install inflight Wi-Fi
News Singapore Airlines is hooking up to Connexion by Boeing's in-flight Internet service.
Choosing a service provider requires careful research
Insight Before you choose to outsource, you need to do some research into potential service providers. Here are the main points to cover and a quick evaluation checklist.
Automated deep-linking technology boosts sales for manufacturing company
Insight Manufacturing Web sites are notorious for leaving customers in the dark about product purchasing options. SharpUSA provides an example of its experience with a solution provided by Channel Intelligence.
AT&T interactive TV plans haven't yet turned on
News Nearly a year after Microsoft invested US$5 billion in AT&T to gain access to its cable network, the duo has little more than fuzzy reception to show for it.
