Guess who's entered the data management space? Symantec, long known for its Norton line of computer protection, has made data management part of its lineup. As Symantec puts it, "Data Protect…
How do you know that your archiving methods today will be enough to retrieve information tomorrow? Will the information you save today be readable in say ten or twenty years? What about encryption? Wi…
Are blade systems ready for Enterprise storage workloads? A new report by Hitachi says that blade systems can increase compute density and bring space-savings to the data center. The facts: blade syst…
If you've not implemented single instance storage (SIS) yet, why not? The idea is so simple, it's brilliant: SIS works by searching a hard disk Volume to identify duplicate files. When SIS fin…
Today, expect each employee to receive an average of 80 emails. Average users receive that many every day, and most employees spend approximately 49 minutes dealing with them. Of those emails, much is…
If the vendors had any say in the matter, you'd be backing up your data from disk to disk. That's the solution offered by Adaptec, Network Appliance and others hoping to replace your slow, ant…
If five of the largest storage manufacturers have anything to say about it, you'll soon have new technology designed to improve system performance and introduce the world to hybrid disks. Hitachi …
Didrik Johnck's Weblog: Saved by a CD:
An object lesson – backups are important, folks.
Really important.
What's the lesson here?? A single electronic backup is not enough; always do a t…
"The G-Force MegaDisk provides up to 1.5 terabytes of capacity – the first drive solution in its class to reach the 1.5 TB benchmark — in an affordable, high-performance external hard disk dr…
Introducing disk-to-disk-to-disaster recovery:
Concepts such as information lifecycle management haven't had much uptake yet. The concept is sound, but there's too much perceived and actual …