Personal computer users - your data storage nirvana is here. Hitachi has announced the arrival of the first one-terabyte hard drive for personal computers. The Deskstar 7K100 drive is a 7200 rpm disk...

You wouldn't turn off your firewall, would you? And surely you're not storing everything on your laptop hard drive, right? If only that were true. More often than not, the biggest security...

Imagine an NAS platform that will deliver more than a million IOPs (input-output operations per second) in your data center. That's now possible - Hitachi Data Systems has released its pumped up...

Just imagine seeing the train wreck coming, yet doing nothing to prevent it. Such was the case last week when Intuit, which owns TurboTax, was caught ironically off guard and its servers were...

How will your world change in just a few years? According to a new Gartner study, virtualization technology will go mainstream in under three years. Gone will be physical servers, network switches...

Most IT managers handle huge volumes of data that are not always easy to sort through or monitor closely. How sure are you that the data you store does not contain someone else's copyrighted...

No wonder you were busy last year - research firm IDC found in a recent study that worldwide data storage in 2006 reached a staggering 161 billion gigabytes. Most of that is in email. By 2010, that...

It happens. Email servers go down, productivity grinds to a halt and businesses lose money over server glitches. It's come to be an expected part of technology. However, one company claims it can...

Today, expect each employee to receive an average of 80 emails. Average users receive that many every day, and most employees spend approximately 49 minutes dealing with them. Of those emails, much...

Why, oh why won't you network your storage? That's the question raised by Network Appliance in its latest white paper regarding the reasons why even smaller companies should use SAN...

You have the storage infrastructure, yet you just can't seem to get the service you'd like out of it. The availability, delivery, scalability and reliability of your data isn't what...

Is tape consolidation for you? That would depend, according to a new white paper released by Datalink. In many cases, upgrades or consolidations can bring significant savings for those whose tape...

It isn't enough to worry about whether your data center is performing properly, is secure enough and is sufficient for the data you're generating. In your effort to make sure you have enough...

Some of the biggest names in technology are joining forces in order to create open-source software. Nine companies - IBM, Cisco Systems, Network Appliance, Brocade, Computer Associates, Fujitsu,...

The security of customer data is paramount to the economic success of a company. Leaked or stolen information can become a nightmare of a legal and financial burden. To ensure your company has...

When was the last time your company performed preventative maintenance on the email system? If you're like most people, it's not been done. Email systems have become necessary tools in the...

Imagine what it must have been like for businesses in new orleans to recover their data post-Katrina. If they were smart, they had taken advantage of offsite storage. If they were even smarter, that...

If the vendors had any say in the matter, you'd be backing up your data from disk to disk. That's the solution offered by Adaptec, Network Appliance and others hoping to replace your slow,...

It's called Master Data Management (MDM), or Reference Data Management, a discipline of IT that manages the shared data across several disparate architectures, groups and systems. These systems...

The new SANS Institute exams aimed at IT coders is another attempt by the industry to enhance secure IT coding skills in programmers. The exam is intended to give companies a way to measure the...