The number of customers served by each switch compounds all of these reliability figures - for 100,000 customers terminated on one switch we have the potential for 100,000 x 5.3 minutes of totalised downtime.
The outsourcing market is being damaged by a perceived lack of reliability and fear of long-term contracts according to a survey out today. Out of 100 IT directors questioned by BlueStar Solutions, 46 per cent already outsource some, or all, of...
Following a poll of 306 European IT directors and managers from France, Germany and the UK, Rhetorik claims that nearly seven out of ten people have concerns over security, and well over half worry about the reliability of ASP services.
EMC, Data General and Microsoft have entered into an alliance aimed at increasing the reliability of the Windows 2000 Server operating system in enterprise environments. Deborah Willingham, VP of Windows Marketing at Microsoft, said that whereas...
Eight out of ten CIOs believe their own IT solutions fail to provide competitive advantage to their organisation. According to a survey commissioned by change management specialist Serena Software, IT directors who think they can help their...
Almost nine out of ten IT directors do not believe IT offers a competitive advantage to their business, according to a new report that highlights the continuing gulf between the boardroom and the IT department.