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on January 23, 2010
Predictive dialer is a system which dials a number of telephone numbers for connecting agents involved in sales, marketing or other business campaigns. They are commonly used in call centers.
You c...
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Technology
on August 30, 2008
What USB is in your pocket?
Does it matter to you?
Most consumers think that all usb drives are created equal. This couldn not be further from the truth. Performance, options, USB standard, etc. all p...
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Technology
on July 31, 2008
Using an energy saving design from Western Digital, Fabrik is shipping a 500 GB eco-friendly drive that uses bamboo as part of the design element. Complete list of cool features include:
Made from ba...
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Technology
on July 27, 2008
Nothing new about systems on a chip (SOCs). But Intel has released an integrated processor name Tolapai, if I can say that, but it's geared towards storage OEMs. The chip has a Pentium Mx86 CPU, I...
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Technology
on July 19, 2008
Do you encrypt data on your hard disk?
Have you ever tried to decrypt or hack that data?
I already know the answer to those questions. I too take for granted and trust that our software vendors know w...
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Technology
on July 16, 2008
From the StorageIO Group comes author of the book Resilient storage networks - Designing Flexible Scalable Data Infrastructures. Greg Sculz has over 25 yars experience in a slew of operating systems a...
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Technology
on July 12, 2008
The first price tag on trhe MacBook Air back in January, with a solid-state drive, costed just over $3,000. Last week the MacBook hit the shelves at just over $2,500! A price slashing of $500. Much of...
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Technology
on July 3, 2008
A File Area network (FAN) is an approach to organizing various file-related technologies within an organization. Proper implementation supples a scalable, flexible, and intelligence driven data manage...
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Technology
on June 21, 2008
An interesting write up on the top five current trends in storage: The Five Biggest Storage Trends. I don't know if these are in any particular order but the list consisted of:
Virtualization - d...
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Technology
on June 15, 2008
As a key component to the backend storage systems within a data center, switches and routers play an important role in consolidation and virtualization. This document provides a great explanation of p...
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Technology
on June 7, 2008
The demand for smaller yet storage rich devices have lured chip makers into into a frenzy. SanDisk this week introduced a line of SSDs that will be available in 4, 8, and 16 GB capacity with READs up ...
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Technology
on June 5, 2008
This is really cool! For those of us who use BitTorrent to access, store, and share data through the Internet, D-Link is giving away a free upgrade for its NAS device that includes the BitTorrent SDK....
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Technology
on May 31, 2008
From the IDG News Service, Seagate will be introducing a solid-state drive next year.
Definition from Wiki: A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store ...
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Technology
on May 31, 2008
How often do you work offline without an Internet connection? We are becoming more tightly coupled to the Internet than ever before as the use of web applications continue to proliferate our lives. Wh...
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Technology
on May 24, 2008
Durring the process of data backup we can question the validity of backing up everything or performing some form of selective backup. Duplication of data in the backup stream can be a blessing or a cu...
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Technology
on December 11, 2007
Probably the most daunting tasks facing the data center is predicting, identifying and fixing the problems that plague us. And you already know your job is getting tougher as IT infrastructures resemb...
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Technology
on November 30, 2007
So which is it - is storage virtualization the best thing to hit the industry or just another tool that could cause you more problems than it's worth? The experts (in particular, one Dr. Kevin McI...
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Technology
on November 6, 2007
When a business requirement passes along the application delivery lifecycle and becomes a functional update to a production service for the business and customer, how many times will it have been subj...
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Technology
on October 25, 2007
When it comes to technology, I'm more than a little bit of a skeptic. Sure, we all have problems that could be potentially devastating, but I tend to take claims made by vendors with a large grain...
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Technology
on October 19, 2007
Suppose you had a terrific method of providing huge storage capacity, but the price was too inhibitive for it to get off the ground. Such was the problem with Magnetic RAM (MRAM), which uses magnetic ...
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Technology
on August 1, 2007
If you could ask your technology provider anything, what would it be? Okay, now what should it be? Sterling Commerce has developed a guide for financial institutions, which isn't a bad guide for t...
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Technology
on June 21, 2007
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 - t...
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Technology
on June 16, 2007
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 applica...
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Technology
on May 11, 2007
Ready to harness all of your data at once? Keeping up with it all is more than a full-time job. But one company believes it has the answer to your woes - a tera-scale real-time analytics platform desi...
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Technology
on May 8, 2007
Big servers are on the way back. That's because data managers are now realizing that separating computing tasks may not be the best choice. bigger servers are returning to the data center in hopes...
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Technology
on May 4, 2007
Thanks to a product designed to help the dental industry with its document storage, one company is seeing the spin-off product as a revolution that's about to take over the paperless document stor...
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Technology
on April 28, 2007
Personal computer users - your data storage nirvana is here. Hitachi has announced the arrival of the first one-terabyte hard drive for personal computers. The Deskstar 7K100 drive is a 7200 rpm disk ...
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Technology
on March 28, 2007
Three dimensional storage? To hear it, many people begin to envision the return of the file cabinet. Yet thanks to holographic technology, millions of pages (that's right - pages) of information c...
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Technology
on March 27, 2007
Four times faster than flash memory - is it possible? Yes, says Dutch company Attorn, which recently announced its solid state hyperdrive. The drive, made from DRAM memory chips, sports 32 GB of stora...
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Technology
on March 3, 2007
If you use tape to backup your files, you might want to consider IBM's tape enhancement, the largest physical capacity linear tape media currently available. The company's tape can now hold a ...
