In the chicken-and-egg world of vendor marketing and user need, clustering has achieved "hot topic" status. Depending on individual needs, a variety of vendors manufacture appliances to target specific points of failure. To be effective, however, the solutions you choose must provide simultaneous coverage for multiple points of failure.
Euro conversion is expected to have major implications for companies that operate from the European Union. Similar to the Year 2000 conversion, the euro conversion is causing organizations to analyze certain aspects of their Information Systems Operations and decide whether to repair, upgrade, retire or replace affected applications.
Using Enterprise Productivity Software, day-to-day operations are significantly improved and problems are eliminated before they have a chance to become problems. The bottom line in operations is doing more, while using fewer resources and minimizing headcount, while maintaining acceptable SLAs.
A counter view of today's Fibre Channel frenzy.