They are also demanding much more from support and maintenance suppliers than was previously the case, including more comprehensive SLAs, time allocation guarantees and skill levels. Companies' desire to retain control over mission-critical or...
The Czech postal service has moved a mission-critical application used by 3,400 post offices across the country to Linux. Czech Post, the company that runs the postal service in the Czech Republic, has installed Novell's SuSE Linux on 4,000 servers...
Now dubbed Microsoft Office Communicator 2005, it becomes the official client for the company's upgraded Live Communications Server (LCS) 2005, which gets a service pack following its debut last year.
Debian, a free distribution of the Linux operating system, is better suited to mission-critical applications than rival commercial distributions, one of the distribution's developers - who you can see pictured in our CeBIT 2005 Gallery - claimed...
So it's a very precise industry in terms of time and it's also very demanding in terms of travelling a lot and needing to establish a high level of connectivity wherever we go and when we need it. This is a technologically very demanding sport...
In SmugMug's case, the photos it stored on Amazon's servers were at the core of its business; "companies should not place mission-critical aspects of their business on the cloud", said Duursma, speaking at the IDC CIO Summit 2008 held in Singapore...