maintenance - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Air New Zealand trialling drone aircraft inspections

  ​Air New Zealand is using drones to inspect difficult to reach parts of its aircraft during maintenance stops.

• Terix to pay Oracle $58M in settlement over Solaris support

  Independent maintenance-support provider Terix must pay Oracle almost $58 million in damages following a stipulated judgment made Wednesday in a U.S. District Court.

• Dell ready to help enterprises move Jive content into Yammer

  Proliferation tends to be a consequence any time a new technology trend takes off, and enterprise social networks are a prime example. Jive, Yammer and Salesforce Chatter are all among the competitors in this arena, and more than a few organizations are struggling under the weight of several of them.

• Chef cooks ups infrastructure testing tools

  Borrowing a technique from the software development community, Chef, maker of a popular system configuration tool, has released the first commercial software to support a new and supposedly more effective approach to managing hardware and software, called test-driven infrastructure.

• CA gets into Cloud management of IT services

  CA Technologies is applying its expertise in service management to the cloud, launching a hosted offering to allow organisations manage and provision IT assets and external cloud services.

• Microsoft scrambles to simplify its licensing

  Microsoft is pledging dramatic improvements to its notoriously complex enterprise licensing, but experts are skeptical about the potential impact of the plan.

• Rimini Street ups third-party maintenance ante

  Rimini Street fired the latest salvo in the ongoing war over software maintenance this week, announcing that it has expanded the number of SAP applications it supports.

Whitepapers about maintenance

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  Data centre downtime: risk and cost avoidance through service

  An effective preventive maintenance strategy can be one of the most cost-effective measures you can take to ensure the ongoing health of both your critical equipment and overall business. Find out the most common causes of UPS failure, how regular maintenance practices so dramatically improve UPS reliability and performance, and the 10 elements an effective UPS maintenance plan should include.

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  Zeroing in on the right devices for a client refresh