The software will support clusters of eight four-processor servers, scaling to 32 servers, Novell officials claim. Novell finally will roll-out its clustering services for NetWare 5 this week, after more than two years of struggling with delivery...
A spokesman for the Financial Times said: "We suffered a power cut early this morning. When the servers were restored it was found that they couldn't read some URLs - those starting with www. Most attempts to go to news.ft.com are successful.
Barely 50 per cent of UK companies have business continuity plans in place - a situation that's unlikely to improve unless security is treated as a business issue. Only 29 per cent of the companies surveyed by the consultancy treat business...
And there's more bad news: only half of the respondents to the survey either have no awareness of, or never review, processes within their organisation in order to identify points of failure or downtime.
Disaster tolerance is often made out to be expensive and only for the biggest companies who would lose millions in revenues if a technical failure was to occur. As there is still a considerable risk of room failure, Quocirca still recommends full...
This leads to arguments that justify substantial spending on business continuity and security, on the grounds of the high cost of downtime. Nor is the increased demand on business continuity. Combined with the related topic of business continuity...