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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
The analysis contained in this presentation measures the cost of everything from the machines and licenses to the infrastructure for virtual vs. traditional desktop environments.
Honor your best senior team members - Apply for the CIO Ones to Watch Award
Get well-earned public recognition for your top up-and-coming team members, your IT organization and your enterprise. Award winners will be announced, publicized and feted in May 2010, great timing to help attract new IT recruits to your company.
Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »January 06, 2009 — IDG News Service —
Salesforce.com was down for under an hour on Tuesday, leaving many users in the dark.
According to brief updates on the trust.salesforce.com system status site, all Salesforce.com services across all regions were largely unavailable between 12:39 p.m. and 1:17 p.m. Pacific Time in the U.S.
In addition, trust.salesforce.com was down as well, so customers were unable to find updates about the outage.
At just after 3 p.m., the company did emergency maintenance across all of its services that it said might have an additional affect on all customers.
Salesforce.com first acknowledged the issue at 12:40 with a short note on trust.salesforce.com. It did not say what caused the outage. Salesforce.com's press group did not immediately respond to a request for additional details.
Some Salesforce.com customers using Twitter said they lost service for only short periods of about five minutes.
Salesforce.com has had fewer significant outages than it did years ago when it first launched. However, as the trend toward hosted services gains momentum, such failures draw attention to the downside of using remote services.