Four infamous IT meltdowns | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2006-01-30 | By Dan Tynan: It's never going to be a good excuse for blowing a budget, but at least it might make you feel a little better about...
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EMC unveils disk array with more than 1 petabyte capacity | InfoWorld | News | 2006-01-26 | By Lucas Mearian, Computerworld: EMC on Thursday announced its largest high-end array yet, offering...
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Vendor Warning Signs: It's almost axiomatic: All Vendors Suck. Some suck less than others, and at different times, and for different reasons - but they all suck. When does the generic vendor...
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Plan ahead to skip storage snags: So, what can a storage network admin do to lighten their urgent load? Focus on the important as well as the urgent. Set aside and schedule some time every day for...
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SATA tape: Why not? | Computerworld Blogs: SATA tape is just one of those technologies that just seem to make sense - a no-brainer if you will. In fact, if you really think about it, you might wonder...
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Open Source Storage A new company to me, but apparently they've been around since 2001. "All we're doing is tailoring the software to meet customer needs," said Niazi."We...
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Open Source grids could be the answer; what's the question? Even with the open source virtualization/grid potential there is still a lot of talk about how exactly we can leverage all that...
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Lasso Logic offers real easy real-time backups | InfoWorld | Review | 2006-01-23 | By Sean McCown: Lasso logic has created a line of disk-to-disk-to-off-site backup appliances that provide continuous...
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When Data Goes Missing: Will You Even Know? - Computerworld: Just what are the odds? What are you gambling on? Recent reports of company-compiled personal data gone missing (such as Marriott losing...
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HP outlines long-term strategy | CNET News.com: According to the source, HP is considering making more acquisitions in the infrastructure software arena. Those acquisitions would include security...
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Disaster recovery protection for Microsoft Exchange Server - Computerworld: Microsoft Exchange server downtime costs companies millions of dollars a year. Technically savvy IT organizations are...
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Storage Grids - A Visionary Architecture for an Intelligent, Scalable, Reliable, and Agile Storage Platform: HP present a document on Storage grids. From the abstract: The concept of grid computing...
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Storage Jamboree | Computerworld Blogs: "There are over fifty storage system vendors. Six have over a billion in revenue, Ten have over 100 million in revenue. And a bunch of the others are...
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Going virtual cuts costs at Palm Beach college - Computerworld: " Palm beach Community College is going virtual: virtual servers, virtual network and virtual storage." "The...
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Let's give thanks for a great year in storage: Steve Duplessie summarizes the year that was, in storage, touching on purchases, industry focuses, who got bigger, who got smaller, and who rolled...
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Filed in archive EMC
by Andrew Garrett on January 17, 2006
"EMC Corporation [...] today announced the addition of google desktop for Enterprise as the newest information source available to users through a single query within EMC Documentum Enterprise...
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Filed in archive EMC
by Andrew Garrett on January 17, 2006
"EMC Corporation [...] today announced the addition of google desktop for Enterprise as the newest information source available to users through a single query within EMC Documentum Enterprise...
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Virtualized storage, real rewards - Computerworld: With costs escalating, Wood needed a way to slow deployment of new storage hardware and make better use of the disparate hardware he already had....
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Filed in archive by Andrew Garrett on January 11, 2006
Hi there. I'm Andrew, and I'm your host here at On Storage. What's this all about? Well, storage. Mostly enterprise storage systems, technologies, tools, that sort of thing. I might dip...
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IBM expert warns of short life span for burned CDs | InfoWorld | News | 2006-01-10 | By John Blau, IDG News Service: Unfortunately, it's true - the affordable option isn't the one that's...
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Email Archiving: A Liability Timebomb With the emergence of new regulations, government organizations are looking to reduce the risk associated with managing the growing and disparate document and...
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Filed in archive NetApp
by Andrew Garrett on January 11, 2006
NetApp supply chain woes frustrate users: [A] wall street analyst, who preferred not to be named, said he'd heard that one customer was so tired of waiting for systems from NetApp that the...
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Techworld.com - Order out of chaos: Techworld.com presents Order out of Chaos - a quick overview of some of the industry terminology in the storage space these days, and gives you a few pointers for...
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Techworld.com - The slow death of tape market: "...tape is invaluable, irreplaceable really. Nothing else could hold the vast volumes of data required for so little money. However, it is being...
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Storage Policy and Retention Schedule....There IS a difference! | Computerworld Blogs: As it gets easier and easier to store larger and larger amounts of data, we have to enforce a certain amount of...
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Filed in archive EMC
by Andrew Garrett on January 07, 2006
EMC to cut 1,000 jobs, but company will grow in size | InfoWorld | News | 2006-01-06 | By China Martens, IDG News Service: EMC's planning on cutting 1,000 position by the end of 2006 - but still...
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