Sometimes it's the constant maintenance that you're throwing good money at. Often, that maintenance comes as a result of file fragmentation. As Diskeeper Corporation puts it, without file...
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Filed in archive NetApp
by Lori Widmer on May 30, 2007
Cut your data storage by 95 percent? Are they serious? It would seem so. Three of the industry's big guns - Dave Russell, VP of Research with Gartner, Keith Scott, IT analyst for the County of...
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Filed in archive Virtual
by Lori Widmer on May 25, 2007
How many articles have you read and vendor testimonials have you listened to that promote the virtualization of hardware? That many, huh? Yet now one company is claiming that virtualization is...
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Filed in archive Backup
by Lori Widmer on May 24, 2007
Are blade systems ready for Enterprise storage workloads? A new report by Hitachi says that blade systems can increase compute density and bring space-savings to the data center. The facts: blade...
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Filed in archive Vendor
by Lori Widmer on May 23, 2007
No one thinks about it. Frankly, I don't think about it, either. Yet there is a data security hole that could sink your entire data center, and it's right there on that little USB memory...
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Filed in archive News
by Lori Widmer on May 22, 2007
Data centers have long fought the fight between storing and maintaining the workflow. Storage networks simply aren't set up to understand, or even to be aware of applications, workflow and data...
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Filed in archive News
by Lori Widmer on May 21, 2007
It was a successful experiment or an utter failure of judgment, depending on which side of the equation you were on. Didier Stevens, a security professional with what appears to be a wicked sense of...
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Filed in archive Cluster
by Lori Widmer on May 18, 2007
Everything you ever wanted to know about clustered storage, but didn't know who to ask - that's what's offered on demand from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), a storage analyst firm. The...
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Filed in archive Backup
by Lori Widmer on May 17, 2007
If you've not implemented single instance storage (SIS) yet, why not? The idea is so simple, it's brilliant: SIS works by searching a hard disk Volume to identify duplicate files. When SIS...
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Can you reduce the cost of your desktop support through data security and standardization methods? The answer from at least one company is yes. HSBC was able to reduce the cost of supporting over...
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If it seems like you're forever deleting spam from your email, that's because you are. A recent report by St. Bernard Software says that on average, employees spend ten minutes per day...
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Security legislation has managed to put data centers against a very rigid wall - comply or else. Complicating matters is the need to protect data from testing phase through production. In many cases,...
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Imagine 90,000 computers. Now imagine them all under your supervision. Could you manage it? If you're unsure, take a look at a video explaining how one company did it. EDS had just that many...
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Ready to harness all of your data at once? Keeping up with it all is more than a full-time job. But one company believes it has the answer to your woes - a tera-scale real-time analytics platform...
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Filed in archive Vendor
by Lori Widmer on May 09, 2007
Good news for IT managers trying to keep the email servers online - Teneros today released a new member of their plug-&-go high availability and disaster recovery appliance family for Microsoft...
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Filed in archive News
by Lori Widmer on May 08, 2007
Looking for systems implementation solutions that deliver? How about one that wins awards? Quantum Corporation, a San Diego-based backup, recovery and archive specialist, has announced that its...
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Big servers are on the way back. That's because data managers are now realizing that separating computing tasks may not be the best choice. Bigger servers are returning to the data center in hopes...
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If you're running an IBM mainframe, good news - you may be able to dramatically reduce the complexity and the cost of data center and disaster recovery solutions. Brocade, a provider of network...
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Thanks to a product designed to help the dental industry with its document storage, one company is seeing the spin-off product as a revolution that's about to take over the paperless document...
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Filed in archive HP
by Lori Widmer on May 02, 2007
Are you leaving breadcrumbs? In enterprise content management (ECM), leaving a trail is essential. Yet does your trail lead anywhere in particular, or is it a hodgepodge of confusing links that...
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Ever since employees began working remotely, IT managers have found that it's easier to herd cats than to protect data generated and possibly stored in numerous places. One only has to look at...
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Being a teacher just became a bit easier. lexmark has announced the release of its Education Station, a laser multifunction printer that can help teachers organize and effectively manage data in and...
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