December 2008
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If MTBF is Greek to You, You're Losing Money Right...
In part one, we discussed the concept of Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF). In part two, we’ll review a practical implication of using and not using, an emerging, game-changing technology.
In a hypothetical professional services firm, say a law firm in a major U.S. city, the average attorney bills at a rate of $300 an hour. If her laptop fails at noon, what’s the cost of her being idle...
If MTBF is Greek to You, You're Losing Money Right...
MTBF, or mean time between failures, is an engineering term that describes the statistical likelihood of a particular part or process breaking. Usually, this is a term used for distinct components, such as a hard disk, or a spark plug.
Keeping in mind we’re speaking of statistics, this suggests that a large number of similar systems operating under similar conditions could expect to have...
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Open Standards--Between a Rock and Hard Place
A colleague of mine works for a company that uses Microsoft Outlook 2003 with Exchange Server 2003. This is the most common email client and email hosting combination in the corporate world today.
I work for myself. I do business with some companies operating on this common platform, and some companies that don’t. And from time to time, I receive or transmit a meeting appointment request...