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Bandwidth Concerns Boost Source Dedupe’s Popularity
As organizations look for alternatives to tape for backups, one that’s attracting their attention is source deduplication. -
Microsoft Has Its Head in the Clouds
Microsoft may be the king of software that runs on personal computers now, but, according to its top dog, the cloud is where the company sees its future. Addressing an audience at the University of Washington, CEO Steve Balmer... -
XML Tags Provide Relief for eDiscovery
In a civil lawsuit, the plaintiffs try to get as much information through discovery as they can from the defendants in the case, and the defendants try to give their opponents as little information as possible without running afoul... -
New Green Data Center Cooled by Wind
When wind and green energy are mentioned these days the first thing that pops to mind are windmills, but Hewlett Packard has found another use for Boreas: data center cooling. In February, the company opened its 360,000-square-foot Wynyard center,... -
Impact on Storage of Legal Mandates is Minimal?
Findings in a recent survey of IT professionals appear to contradict popular wisdom about what will be driving the need for data centers to add capacity in the coming years. The poll conducted by technology numbers shop IDC, of... -
Why Lawyers Need Knowledge of Data Retention Policies
A recent case decided in New York underscores the need to put the brakes on data destruction procedures when a company becomes the target of a lawsuit. The litigation, Einstein v. 357, LLC , involved the alleged design, construction,... -
Data Centers Go Wireless
Looking for a micro local view of the temperatures around the racks and shelves in your data center? If you’re Microsoft, you’re turning to wireless sensor networks to find out that information in your centers worldwide. The program began... -
Cloud Disaster Recovery is Just Pie in the Sky (at least right now)
While some cloud computing vendors would like you to believe backing up data to the nimbus is the same as disaster recovery from it, it isn’t. Cloud backup involves replicating data and storing it off the premises of its... -
Business Balking on Cloud Storage
While the cloud may have an irresistible attraction to some businesses for some purposes, storage doesn’t seem to be one of them—at least according to some recent findings from Forrester Research. In a report titled “Business Users Are Not... -
Storage Pros Worried by Resource Shortfalls
An increasing number of business technology professionals are saying they’re worried about meeting the storage demands of critical applications in their organizations, according to recently released findings by InformationWeek Analytics.