The firm has been criticised for losing investors' money through computer failures and down time. The company believes this will improve it's ability to deal with site failures and variations in user volume.
One significant finding was that there were fewer network failures this year than last. Despite this, one in 10 networks still fall over every month - and the average downtime resulting form these failures has actually increased.
Earlier this month German newspaper Handelsblatt reported that Nokia's 3310, 3330 and 8850 models also had reliability problems, with higher than average numbers being returned to shops. The reliability problems plaguing Nokia have finally hit home...
Natural disasters come in clusters, as do births, deaths, marriages, car accidents and electrical appliance failures in our homes. For centuries we got away with applying linear thinking and limited models to complex non-linear situations and...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or Ferc, would be tasked with setting standards to prevent system instability or failures that can be tied to a "sudden disturbance, including a cyber-security incident".
Pervasive Software has decided to exit the business of providing support for the PostgreSQL open source database, one of the first failures in the current rush to open source business models. Open source business models are becoming widely adopted...