There it goes - that whooshing noise is the sound of your IT budget Sailing out the window. But what's an IT manager to do? The words "data center" and "efficiency" have had...
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One of the top information providers in the data space, Ziff Davis, is on a roll with its latest series of eSeminars. Here are two notables for your consideration: Fix Access Control on Your Windows...
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If you use Federal Sun Solaris, hear this: The latest Ziff Davis eSeminar event is something you don't want to miss. The seminar, titled Solaris to Linux: The Path of Painless Migration, is an...
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by Lori Widmer on July 21, 2007
To be an IT professional now is to have your pick of positions and career choices. That's the news reported by Gartner's 2007 IT Market Compensation Study released on Tuesday. If you're a...
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Another day, another theft of valuable credit card information. Even though companies are being pressured to meet the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), many are foregoing...
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by Lori Widmer on July 20, 2007
Hackers are getting much more clever. This is evidenced by the latest attack on US Department of Transportation computers, as well as thos from companies such as Booz Allen, Unisys Corp.,...
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by Lori Widmer on July 19, 2007
Another day, another round of buzz words. Industry jargon seems to propogate faster than venture capitalists during the IT boom. How ever will you keep up? Fear not, for writer/Illustrator Paul...
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Cut your data storage use by as much as 95 percent - that's what NetApp aims to teach you in its latest TechTalk Chat, scheduled for this Thursday, July 19th at 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Pacific Time...
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One of the most essential applications in your company's workflow process is email. Without it, business grinds to a near halt. How can you keep your email system at high-availability level?...
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American Photo has chosen a winner in its 2007 Editor's Choice Award for Best Storage Products. The winner - Newer Technology's NewerTech Guardian MAXimus RAID-1 storage solution. It's a...
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What can you learn from your unstructured data? According to a number of estimates, nearly 85 percent of your company's data is unstructured - floating around in the form of text messages,...
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Here's one company that's not stymied by immigration quotas - Microsoft has announced it's planning to open a new software development center in Vancouver, B.C., in what appears to be an...
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When you have that first cup of coffee in the morning, why not learn how to control flawed data at the same time? Business Objects is sponsoring a series of Data Quality Breakfast Seminars across the...
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by Lori Widmer on July 11, 2007
The US government is one step closer to being able to share data across agencies. Since September 11, 2001, the government has tried to find a safe, secure way to share data among agencies, but to no...
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Here's a scary thought - that disaster recovery plan you've so carefully hashed out and constructed may actually be putting you in more danger than if you had nothing. Why? Because of...
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It's nearly 2008 - is your data center compliant yet? Don't look now, but Sarbanes-Oxley is coming into full-compliance mode, not to mention HIPAA, which has been adding more storage...
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by Lori Widmer on July 05, 2007
When you're found with your hand in the cookie jar, apologize. A lot. German company SAP has apologized to rival Oracle for what it calls "inappropriate" downloads of over 10,000 Oracle...
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If you're having trouble convincing upper management to invest in a central storage system, show them this article, written by Ian Mylchreest, where Tom Utiger, founder of Data Empowerment Group,...
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by Lori Widmer on July 04, 2007
Here's a bad day at work. You show up for your interning gig and by the end of the day, you're in the middle of one of the largest data loss investigations in your state. And all fingers...
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What are some of the bigger roadblocks in your data management process? Storage requirements are doubling every few years. Electronic traffic between vendors, customers and businesses is made more...
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