Like when you have a great Internet connection but the cloud server is down.
For instance, if the virtual server goes down, all of the virtual machines go down, destroying availability.
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Hewlett-Packard held onto second place in overall sales, grabbing 26.9% of overall server revenues, down from 30.3% as its server sales slumped 10.2%, according to Gartner.
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EBay, for instance, has reduced the number of server configurations it will deploy down to two. (Before it had 200 to 300 server configurations but 15 configurations accounted for 80 percent of the total population.) EBay now has a High Performance Computing server designed to handle transactions.
If too many resources are required a server can suddenly slow down or crash.
The processor then hung too close to the fan, its heat causing a sensor to go off which automatically shut down the server.
The Hot Desk technology also enables the rendering of the application execution on the server, sending it down to the Sun Ray 1 appliance.
Second, remember that when they decide to shut down a server for an always-on-DRM game, even if it's really just a single player game, it is legally unplayable.
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As a result of Melissa, one unidentified company shut down its mail server but is having a hard time getting back online with all of the e-mail, Hernan said.
The downside of geocoding Web services is that they tend to require a license if you want to make lots of requests and, because they involve extra back-and-forth with an external server, they can slow down processes.
If any one node or route went down, any one server removed from the system, then traffic just routes around it and everything carries on as before.
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So Many people attempted to view the Victoria Secrets models strut down the runway that the server failed and crashed.
Sit down to order with a server arriving in precisely one minute upon sitting. 4 minutes later, the bread basket has arrived.
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Once the channel is set up, listeners can simply press a button or touch a sensor to send a thumbs up or thumbs down back to the MyKOSS server to remotely 'fine tune' the content delivered to their personalized channels.
"The server license and the seat license has come down quite a bit, " said Mr. Yanez.
In an attempt to keep latency down, Onlive has opened a new European server facility in Luxembourg, placing its computing systems closer to the people that are going to be using it.
The data center will be used to provide server space for tech startups at lower rates to help them keep costs down.
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For example, if the cloud detects that the client has high-end graphics, it can let the client do some rendering, transmitting abbreviated math that describes the function to be rendered, rather than forcing the server end to do the work centrally and ship lots of pixel values down the line.
For its part, Microsoft has spent considerable time and energy tamping down security problems with its own products, from NT and other server software to its Internet Explorer browser.
As much as it's important to have every component of a PC stuck together in a laptop, that same monolithic strategy is a major liability for server clusters: if one part breaks or grows obsolete, it can drag down everything else.
But Major League Baseball's Web site, MLB.com, also rents server space from Joyent, scaling up its use during baseball season and scaling it down in the autumn.
The same automation and control that gives organizations the ability to scale up or down using multiple servers when demand increases also allows them to migrate entire server deployments to a new infrastructure when disaster strikes.
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It can't delete mail from the inbound server, either, but it can display Word and Excel attachments with the help of cut-down versions of the programs included in the package.
The Mini was launched a year ago as a scaled-down, blue version of Google's bright yellow Search Appliance--essentially a rack-mounted server that businesses could plug into their network infrastructure for searching up to 100, 000 shared files and Web pages.
There are so many things that can slow web apps down, and even if you cache and optimize your data feeds, move the heavy lifting from the server to the client and all of the other things that smart app developers have been doing, you still will bump into the limitations of the browser.
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