Virtualisation technologies make it much easier and less expensive to keep key applications available through failures, outages and even regional disasters. By carefully balancing downtime costs and availability options, organisations can extend the benefits of high availability (HA) to even more applications, locations and users. (more…)
An on demand video by Michael Bilancieri, Senior Director of Products from our partners Marathon Technologies and Stephen Wynkoop Microsoft SQL MVP covers: (more…)
A new white paper published by Stephen Wydkoop, Microsoft SQL server MVP, highlights the overall benefits of virtualising a SQL environment as well as the potential pitfalls of doing so. (more…)
Another webinar we’ve been asked about – so we’re including it on our site to make it easier to find. Yes, you need to enter your email address to access it but it’s worth a look to learn more. We’ll be adding it to our Marathon webinar page shortly but click here to see it now. (more…)
According to the Environmental Audit Committee, the Government’s use of IT systems is one of the main reasons given for the failure to meet its own targets for reducing carbon emissions. Electricity use is increasing, largely due to the number of Government computers, printers, laptops et al. (more…)
White Papers and Deployment Blue Print Explain How to Protect All Aspects of XenApp Environment with Fewer Resources and at Lower Cost. (more…)
On July 30th, 24/7 Uptime’s high availability partner, Marathon Technologies, hosted a joint webinar with Microsoft – “Top 10 reasons to Upgrade to Windows 2008 now”. It was very well attended and several questions were posed to the speakers David Hanna, Infrastructure Architect at Microsoft, and Michael Bilancieri, Senior Director of Products at Marathon. In fact too many questions to handle during the one hour allocated webinar slot. So – here are a selection of the Q&As. Oh – and if you want to see the full webinar click here …. Windows 2008 Webinar (more…)
Was watching Aleksandr doing his stuff again last night when it struck me – I think he needs some everRun high availability software from his fans at 24/7 Uptime. Then he won’t need to beat up his computer – or Sergei. Simples!
Take a look at his latest bloopers here – love the ‘wardrobe malfunction’ and helium balloon parts …..
I’m learning more about the CRC legislation that comes into effect next year and it’s sounding like a rather expensive undertaking for business so far. From what I can gather, and in very simple terms, organisations within the scope of this legislation will initially need to buy allowances (emission credits) from the Government at a cost of £12/tonne of CO2 produced. (more…)
Just read an interesting research report from Info-Tech/IBM about green IT and what the drivers and outcomes are for mid-sized companies, particularly in the current economic climate. (more…)
