© George's Photos 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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