To accurately measure system availability, you must monitor all components for outages, then calculate end-to-end availability. Here’s a step-by-step guide to these availability calculations. To ...

Every year, I hear dozens of horror stories from customers about server and network outages and the resulting loss of data and productivity. For a brief moment, some network users may find an outage a ...

Overly optimistic availability assumptions are contributing to a clear discrepancy between modelled PV output forecasts and reality. Image: SeaBrook Solar. PV system modelling relies on a standard ...

The recent global Microsoft IT outage, triggered by an automated software update from CrowdStrike, highlights the critical importance of this often-neglected aspect. Described by industry analysts as ...

Plugging in a new system requires more than just money and making sure all the interrelated parts play well together. Two key issues that CIOs may overlook in the rush to build a more stable ...

Storage expectations in high profile or mission-critical environments command continuous and uncompromised performance with at least 99% uptime (i.e., less than 1% downtime) irrespective of all the ...

In the age of digital transformation, the uptime and continuous availability of systems are paramount for businesses across all sectors. High Availability (HA) clustering has emerged as a critical ...

As we approach the pervasive-computing era in which users will have round-the-clock access to information and services from any location, embedded-system designers are under growing pressure to boost ...