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CMG Papers Accepted

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Its now official! We have 2 papers accepted in this years CMG International conference in Reno Nevada: http://cmg.org/cgi-bin/agenda_2006.pl?action=more&token=6011 and http://cmg.org/cgi-bin/agenda_2006.pl?action=more&token=6044

Hardware Sizing and OS Tuning Services

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

Fortuitous Technologies today announced new sizing and tuning services for Linux and UniX servers. Both services are low cost alternatives that cater to the burgeoning Linux server marketplace. The sizing services provide cpu, memory,IO, and network interconnect recommendations in raw performance units. The Tuning services provides kernel recommendations for Linux and other commercial Unix variants. [...]

Cost Recovery by Design

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Dominique Heger & Philip Carinhas, Fortuitous Technologies Inc Summary: Costs of performance and capacity planning are often recovered many fold and fast. Intro Often seen as an extra expense, performance and capacity planning often saves a project more money in the long run. Costs are usually recovered by the completion of the initial implementation phase [...]

The Vicious Cycle of Performance Costs

Monday, April 17th, 2006

See the full articleAbstractAbstractDominique A. Heger, Fortuitous Technologies, Austin, TX, dom(at)fortuitous.com Abstract In today’s parallel, heterogeneous, and interconnected IT landscape, predicting and controlling the cost factors surrounding systems performance and capacity planning may seem overwhelming to many organizations. For larger IT projects, it is not uncommon to experience scenarios where the cost factors for performance [...]

Fortuitous Technologies Expands Performance Services

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

March 15, 2005 For Immediate Release Fortuitous Technologies has recently announced the addition of strategic performance engineering services including performance planning, capacity planning, reliability and feasibility studies. The main focus on these services is the cluster, grid, and super computing markets. Fortuitous Technologies was recently joined by Dr. Dominique Heger, who brings a vast set [...]

Cluster and Grid Computing Flying Blind

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Fortuitous Technologies http://fortuitous.com Cluster and grid computing has become extremely popular, yet very few designers are using modern capacity planning techniques to ensure performance. Cooking on the Grid Grid computing has become extremely popular in IT circles mainly because of the potential computing power and cost savings. But grid computing is a multifaceted technology that [...]

Fortuitous Technologies Partners with GAX Corp

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Fortuitous has entered into a partnership with GAX Corp to offer Performance and Cluster Services for Linux and other UNIX systems. December 10, 2005 16:00 GMT, 2005 For Immediate Release Fortuitous Technologies of Austin, TX has recently signed an agreement with GAX S.A. of Luxembourg (http://www.gax.com). GAX will market and deliver key Fortuitous services and [...]

Fortuitous Announces Expansion into Performance Services

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

November 3, 2005 16:00 GMT, 2005 For Immediate Release Fortuitous Technologies is expanding into the performance, capacity, reliability, and disaster recovery markets. Fortuitous currently provides networking, documentation, and IT administration services to the Linux, FreeBSD, OSX, and UNIX marketplace. With this expansion, Fortuitous enters the market of performance tuning, capacity planning, reliability, and high-availability. These [...]

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Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

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