Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, murat $en Do we want government to watch us while we troll the internet? Do we want government to capture, store, and evaluate our chat, email, and browsing sessions? Do...
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© boredzo One of these days corporations will start issuing laptops and personal computers without USB drives, CD burners, and connectivity to the Internet for file transfers. Case in point: It is...
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© kurtxio Convolve, the holder of a patent that limits vibrations in hard drives has claimed Dell Inc and two suppliers (Western Digital, and Hitachi) have infringed on the patent. Despite earlier...
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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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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...
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It's tough keeping up with the Joneses, especially when your professional life depends on it. Technology changes at lightning speed, and as a result, companies get caught up in legal arguments...
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Even the government can't get it right. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is developing a data mining tool that allows for faster searches through mountains of data. However, according to...
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Hu Yoshida's Blog: Misunderstandings About Storage Virtualization: Hu Yoshida weighs in with his viewpoint on vendor-lockin on Storage Virtualisation systems. *phew*. Interesting view, and makes...
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DrunkenData.com » Blog Archive » Un-ingestion: I'm a big fan of open standards - if for no reason other than to avoid this sort of scenario. Our dev team at work is doing some work customizing...
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Google: A giant hard disk in the sky? | Computerworld Blogs: If Google starts to offer free, unlimited storage, things could get very interesting. I don't know how I'd feel about using that -...
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Quantum, StorageTek end patent fight "Quantum and Sun Microsystems subsidiary StorageTek have settled their three-year patent Dispute and entered into a cross-licensing agreement, according to a...
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Turning information into gold: All of the data in the world isn't a lot of use to you, unless you can extract those precious nuggets of relevant information from it. IBM is investing $1 billion...
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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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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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How to find a football in the Grand Canyon: We've finally discovered how to store huge amounts of data in a smaller box. Now we just have to figure out how to find it all. Easier said than...
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