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by James Koopmann on August 10, 2008
Did that get your attention? With a recent release of AOL unveiling Xdrive's 5GB free storage for Mac, I just wondered how much free space would it take for you to sign up for one of these service...
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Planning/Strategy
by James Koopmann on August 1, 2008
IT continues to use more and more storage. With uncontrolled growth comes uncontrolled spending. But for the frugal storage shope there are ways to save a dime. A report titled "Five Key Storage ...
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Planning/Strategy
by James Koopmann on June 26, 2008
How much email do you have?
How much email do you need to keep?
Can you produce electronic documents, including email, if forced to by court order.
Email is not only a corporate asset but is becoming...
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Planning/Strategy
by Lori Widmer on January 8, 2008
Some good news: IT departments are reporting a consistent 99.9 percent availability of critical business services, yet customers are still complaining about downtime. Here's something to consider:...
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by Lori Widmer on December 7, 2007
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 the...
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Planning/Strategy
by Lori Widmer on October 30, 2007
It takes large-scale disasters, natural or otherwise, for us to rethink our data storage. Such is the case for nearly every business in southern California. An article by Rob Ederle at e-Commerce Time...
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Planning/Strategy
by Lori Widmer on October 8, 2007
Who's right and who's wrong? If you're like me, you're more than a little tired of experts giving conflicting advice on what solution is right for you. We listen to them because we nee...
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Planning/Strategy
by Lori Widmer on September 26, 2007
Yes Virginia, there is such a thing as affordable disaster recovery. Dell gives us its expertise on using virtualization - PlateSpin's Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) Recovery solution to be exact - in ...
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Planning/Strategy
by Lori Widmer on September 25, 2007
You're dealing with growing amounts of data that needs to be dealt with in more than just an add-a-server way. You want to defragment, but can't quite see a reliable way to do so. Thanks to Di...
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Planning/Strategy
by Lori Widmer on September 21, 2007
Unhappy with your VAN? Thinking that switching is more of a nightmare than putting up with unsatisfactory behavior? You may want to read the white paper prepared by Inovis, which explains how to migra...
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by Lori Widmer on August 30, 2007
If you've shied away from service oriented architecture (SOA) solutions thinking they wouldn't deliver the optimization you want, perhaps it's time you rethink your strategy. A new white p...
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by Lori Widmer on July 31, 2007
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 mo...
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by Lori Widmer on July 10, 2007
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 disaster...
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by Lori Widmer on July 4, 2007
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 June 7, 2007
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 "Project...
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by Lori Widmer on May 16, 2007
If it seems like you're forever deleting spam from your email, that's because you are. A recent report by St. Bernard Software says that on average, employees spend ten minutes per day removin...
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by Lori Widmer on April 13, 2007
Is tape consolidation for you? That would depend, according to a new white paper released by Datalink. In many cases, upgrades or consolidations can bring significant savings for those whose tape libr...
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by Lori Widmer on April 3, 2007
The new SANS Institute exams aimed at IT coders is another attempt by the industry to enhance secure IT coding skills in programmers. The exam is intended to give companies a way to measure the securi...
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by Lori Widmer on March 21, 2007
Oh, how quickly data can turn on you. Where once you had a nice neat system for storing your company data, you now have an unwieldy and complicated mesh of multiple-vendor apps, add ons and a lot more...
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by Lori Widmer on March 16, 2007
Can it really be true? Can your database drive your sales? One software vendor would like you to believe so. Salesforce.com has released a webcast that explains how you can use your existing customer ...
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by Lori Widmer on March 10, 2007
How can you cut your three email servers down to one? Can it be done? You bet.
If you're like most people, your data storage has outgrown its current parameters. You deploy more servers - you nee...
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, Planning/Strategy
, Pricing
, Technology
by Andrew Garrett on September 11, 2006
The Blog of Ben Rockwood: Cheap Ass Storage: How Low Can You Go
Ben rockwood runs the numbers on cheap, whitebox storage solutions.
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Opinion
, Planning/Strategy
by Andrew Garrett on August 25, 2006
Size Matters: Use The Right Tool:
Your tools should amplify your productivity, not rob it. Whatever you choose think ROI.
A great couple of (pseudo?) Real Life stories over at the Lone Sysaadmin.
W...
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, Opinion
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, Security
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by Andrew Garrett on July 30, 2006
Allow me to point you towards the first three parts of what appears to be an ongoing series on StorageMojo.
Architecting Internet Data Centers - Pt. I:
Architecting The Internet Data Center: Pt II
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by Andrew Garrett on July 30, 2006
The Lone Sysadmin » The Problem With I/O:
It used to be troublesome when someone needed 200 GB of disk space. It was this big Negotiation between a system administrator or storage administrator and t...
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by Andrew Garrett on July 30, 2006
Storage-server hybrids coming into vogue | CNET News.com:
When designing a data center, conventional wisdom holds that servers should do the thinking while storage systems should hang onto the data. ...
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, Open Source
, Opinion
, Planning/Strategy
, Vendor
by Andrew Garrett on July 14, 2006
Herding CA(T)S Caringo Launches Software-Only CAS Solution:
EMC, with the help of software from the Belgian company FilePool that they acquired the previous year, sought to apply an indexing scheme...
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by Andrew Garrett on May 24, 2006
The Lone Sysadmin » VMware I/O Problems:
The Lone Sysadmin had some IO problems with his VMWare ESX installation - and the solution is rather interesting from a storage point of view.
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Planning/Strategy
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by Andrew Garrett on May 17, 2006
TechRepublic Blog: 50 ways to leave your lover:
Breaking up is hard to do - your friends and their friends, your stuff and their stuff, all that shared history of broken promises to get over - it...
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, HP
, IBM
, NAS
, Nearline
, NetApp
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, Technology
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by Andrew Garrett on May 12, 2006
Storage vendors rewrite the rules of the game | InfoWorld | Column | 2006-05-11 | By Mario Apicella:
It seems inevitable, like death and taxes. Every year, storage vendors renew their portfolios, del...
