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Staff Cuts & Talent Shortages Are Plaguing Data Centers
Data center managers are being whipsawed by payroll paring and a dearth of qualified candidates, according to a recent survey conducted by Applied Research for security software maker Symantec. The worldwide poll of data center specialists in 1,780 enterprises... -
Text Messages Subject to eDiscovery
Companies still trying to cope with how long they should keep their emails in storage to meet compliance demands are facing another noisome problem. What should they do about text messages sent and received on phones they issue their... -
Research May Prolong Tape’s Life for 10 Years.
Just when the doom buglers are ready to blow taps for tape as an archival medium (once again), researchers seem to find a way to prolong the life of it. Some recent news from IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratories in Switzerland... -
Private Clouds Trade Benefits for Security
Corporations guard their data jealously, and who can blame them? In the Information Age, data is to business as blood is to life. So it’s not surprising that any paradigm that removes an enterprise’s direct control of its data... -
Court Rules Metadata Part of eDiscovery
The inclination of federal courts to require metadata be included with electronic documents obtained through e-discovery seems to be seeping down to the state courts. In a case decided by the Arizona Supreme Court last fall, justices flipped two... -
Saving Power Can Cause Problems for Your Data Center
Today’s computer processors are designed to save power. But that wasn’t always the case. Technology once reserved for conserving juice on notebook computers has been incorporated into desktop computers and servers. While generally this has been a good development,... -
Why Data Categorization Is Essential when Creating Security Plans
When planning security for a data center many things pop into mind—firewalls, anti-virus software, filtering—but data categorization may not be one of them. Yet, some security experts would argue that building silos for classifying data is the cornerstone of... -
eDiscovery Lessons Learned from Blagojevich
The people who gather electronic evidence sometimes spend too much time snatching documents from an adversary and not enough time considering how to protect that information once they get it. -
How to Achieve Peace of Mind When Destroying Data Tapes
It’s a data center administrator’s worst nightmare. A data tape headed for destruction disappears in transit. Even companies that use the very best tape management systems to track tapes and other media have no control once the media is in transit.... -
Turn Up the Heat in Your Data Center & Save Cold Hard Cash
In these energy conscious times, it’s not often recommended to raise the heat to save energy but that’s the latest wisdom being peddled to data center managers. That’s because allowing a data center to run hotter means less...