Who isn't up for saving some money on data storage? More of you are putting the emphasisis on lowering your total cost of ownership, or TCO. And guess what? The storage industry thinks your...

Storage needs are growing faster than you have space for. Imagine a 53-percent growth in your storage needs in one year - that's the number that the IDC/InfoWorld Trends in Storage survey says...

Cell phones can't be hacked into, say the experts. But try telling that to a Tacoma, Washington family, whose lives have been filled with torment thanks to cyber stalkers who have taken over the...

Did you know there was a way to maximize your company's ROI on high-volume desktop deployment? Yes, you can take that time and labor sink and turn it into a lucrative strategy instead of the...

According to a recent study by the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley, 1 and 2 exabytes of unique information per year are generated world wide....

For those IT professionals unsure about the impact of defragmentation on backup performance, the news is good. Diskeeper has released a study that shows the time required to back up data from a...

How long have you been avoiding the fully-functional disaster recovery schematic? Ooo, that long? It's not without some warrant that companies avoid a comprehensive disaster recovery structure -...

It's been said that everything old is new again, and nothing could be more true than that with system virtualization. The introduction of virtual machine and hypervisor technology aboard x86...

What's one of the biggest causes of downtime? Surprisingly, it's not power failures or server Overload. According to a recent Gartner study, 40 percent of service downtime is caused by...

Here's proof that even the most innocous-looking actions of your employees can bring down your data security walls - a Pfizer employee unwittingly opened the door to the theft of over 17,000...

What's the deal from Samsung? The company has released its 1 terabyte hard drive to ... no fanfare? Odd, but true. The drives were sent out into the market without the usual hoopla that typically...

Guess who's entered the data management space? Symantec, long known for its Norton line of computer protection, has made data management part of its lineup. As Symantec puts it, "Data...

Everything you've always wanted to know about network attached storage systems, but were reluctant to ask - that's what's presented in Adaptec's Snap Server NAS Performance Study....

Does fragmentation affect SANs, NAS and RAID? Most people believe not. Yet a recent paper released by Diskeeper says otherwise. In fact, the company says that disk arrays are just as prone to...

The first settlement under New York's Information Security Breach and Notification Law has been handed down in that state. In the lawsuit, it was alleged that CS STARS, a claims management...

Imagine a usb drive that can be password protected and would allow the user to encrypt part or all of the information on the drive. Thanks to SanDisk, you don't have to imagine it any longer. The...

If you're one of the world's biggest corporations, you're apt to do things in a big way. Such is the case with IBM, which announce recently that it is pouring $1 billion into...

Here's an interesting thought - how you manage your desktop environment will directly affect your network. Okay, not a new thought, but one company claims it's how you handle desktop PC...

Sharing information outside the firewall - the thought is enough to melt the resolve of the toughest IT manager. That's because the door is wide open to hacker compromise. Yet web-based...

How do you know that your archiving methods today will be enough to retrieve information tomorrow? Will the information you save today be readable in say ten or twenty years? What about encryption?...