Filed in archive Opinion
by Lori Widmer on September 28, 2007
It's time once again to spread a little link love to the fellow storage bloggers sharing cyberspace with me. This week's group offer something from the more unique side of the business: All...
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Filed in archive Security
by Lori Widmer on September 27, 2007
If you retain customer data, listen up. IBM thinks it can help you halt attacks that come from within. As they state in their latest report, IBM says this about attacks: "Organizations have...
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Filed in archive Security
by Lori Widmer on September 26, 2007
Want to wage war against phishing threats to your company? Tell your employees to play more often - specifically a game designed to teach players how to recognize phishing threats. The brainchild of...
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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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Filed in archive Blog Roll
by Lori Widmer on September 21, 2007
Continuing our Friday-morning blog roll theme, here are some of my new favorite offerings for this week: Storage Markets: What's this? A contest for storage gurus? Are you into the financial...
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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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Filed in archive Microsoft
by Lori Widmer on September 19, 2007
Historically, Microsoft hasn't really pulled its business offerings together. Its strategy has resembled a bit of "Oh! Here's something" mixed with "Hey, people are buying...
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Filed in archive News
by Lori Widmer on September 18, 2007
No matter what your industry, there's research readily available that will help you to determine the best storage solution for you. Thanks to Bitpipe, an online network of IT and business web...
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Filed in archive FYI
by Lori Widmer on September 17, 2007
It's great to see a true techie give an honest-to-God description that knocks your socks off. Thanks go to Damon Howell for a great post over at TechRepublic. Damon gives us an in-depth look at...
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Filed in archive Vendor
by Lori Widmer on September 14, 2007
Want to centralize your storage, but afraid of how it will affect your WAN? It's possible, according to Riverbed. We know why you've been reluctant - greater bandwidth consumption, longer...
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Look out, IBM and HP - Dell has just entered the small business space with a storage array. Cheap and simple are the buzz words surrounding Dell's new MD3000i, which is set to compete...
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Filed in archive News
by Lori Widmer on September 11, 2007
At what price security? That's the question raised by the federal government's plan to use long-range RFID technology in border patrol. Talk of implanting the chips in driver's licenses...
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Filed in archive News
by Lori Widmer on September 10, 2007
It's frustrating when your databases don't synch. However, when you're the FBI and the incompatibility causes you to lose track of 20 terror suspects, it's downright embarrassing. The...
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Filed in archive News
by Lori Widmer on September 07, 2007
Your virtual servers are the next target for malware attacks. This news from an article at Data Storage News detailing one company's move from virtual back to blade servers to run its Linux...
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Filed in archive News
by Lori Widmer on September 06, 2007
Could atoms be the key to a better storage environment? IBM has announced breakthrough research into the magnetic properties of atoms that could lead to smaller-scale electronics, thus dramatically...
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Protecting data is your mantra. And if the plethora of information available from vendors is any indication, no one has the ultimate solution. Yet it's clear that optimization of data is linked...
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Filed in archive Microsoft
by Lori Widmer on September 04, 2007
If you were waiting for the December release of Microsoft's latest software, Windows Server 2008, will be ready for manufacturing three months into 2008 and ready for public consumption...at the...
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