Of all the things I enjoy about bringing this weblog to you, I think I enjoy most discovering blogs that can either help you or entertain you. The perfect balance is a blog that can do both. This...

Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. Take storage virtualization, for example. According to at least one expert, too much virtualization in too many places can be prohibitive in cost, not...

This week, a webcast three-for-all: The first two webcasts, all provided by HP, are on-demand. The third one is slated for February, but a little pre-planning is a good thing, right? Webcast #1...

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Oh, how often we start out with one application update only to find at the end of the approval lifecycle that update no longer resembles anything remotely like its origins. Is change management...

I'm foregoing this week's blog roll to allow EMC to respond to IBM's comments posted yesterday. And respond they did. This quote came in from Todd Cadley, PR for the storage management...

The debate surrounding why or why not you should be virtualizing your storage network has just been heated up yet again. EMC's release of its new and improved Invista solution has industry...

It's the battle you'll constantly fight - how to optimize your backup and recovery processes so that business can go on as usual despite problems. Thanks to new technology and advances in the...

We've seen the outdated predictions of how life will be in say 50 years, but how often are they right on the money? I found this particular video on Snopes.com, which is my go-to site for...

CITTIO Managed Administration Services thinks there's a better way for you to manage your it infrastructure and improve your business processes as you do so. That's why the company has...

Trolling the blogs this week, I found what I think are some fun, interesting blogs worthy of your time. Here are a few favorites: Craig Mathias' blog: Part of the ever-growing blog-dom over at...

You know what DITA and XML can do for your company, but can you convey that to management? Often, the bottom-line effects are not something data managers focus on; rather, they focus on enhancing and...

In my continuing efforts to bring you information you can really use, I've decided that along with the Friday blog roll, I'll try to feature one webcast opportunity each week. Mind you, not...

Probably the most daunting tasks facing the data center is predicting, identifying and fixing the problems that plague us. And you already know your job is getting tougher as IT infrastructures...

Most of your data's sitting right now on your file servers - nearly 90 percent, I'd wager. Sound about right? So tell me; just who has access to that? Ooo, that many folks? Don't feel too...

Fridays seem to come much more quickly these days, but that doesn't mean I'm not prepared with a list of this week's blog favorites. Condor's Blog: Run by the folks who head up the...

You can become the hero of your customers' support-related worlds. By giving proper support on the first call (which only 65 percent of customers report they are receving on first contact with...

You've been dreading it, haven't you? That migration of your current operating system and all that information over to Vista - and you've probably avoided it as long as you could. Yet if...

It's the nightmare of the data center manager - the remote employee surfs in one too many unprotected places, or opens that email that shouldn't have been, and drags home a virus that can...

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