This paper examines how server marketing claims of high reliability (e.g., 99.999%) stack up against real world data measurements. Our goals were to: measure discretionary NFS data availability, compare data availability between standalone and clustered systems, and draw some conclusions about best practices for customers. We explain our methodology for measuring, filtering, and categorizing av...

Customersourcing is a newly coined term representing the on-line version of an older practice, and a defining a sub-category of the now popular Crowdsourcing practice. This article starts with a brief overview of Crowdsourcing and its various subcategories such as Crowdfunding, and Crowdvoting. Further, the conceptual development of the Customersourcing Model is discussed in which a ‘community ...

Companies have made their best efforts to sustain ongoing relations with their customers and thus generate as much revenue and profits as possible through CRM (Customer Relationship Management). One of the key marketing tools of CRM is target marketing. Target marketing is a marketing strategy that analyzes certain goods and services preferred by existing customers, develops new goods and servi...

Many young children are thought by their parents to eat poorly. Although the majority of these children are mildly affected, a small percentage have a serious feeding disorder. Nevertheless, even mildly affected children whose anxious parents adopt inappropriate feeding practices may experience consequences. Therefore, pediatricians must take all parental concerns seriously and offer appropriat...