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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. -
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... -
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... -
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.... -
The Reports of Tape’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
Tape as a storage medium has been pronounced dead as often as paper has as a medium for documents. Those pronouncements from so-called experts don’t seem to have prevented the $3 billion printer industry from turning a tidy profit... -
Where should you locate your next data center?
Geography may have lost its luster among curriculum creators, but it remains an important consideration when planning a data center. After all, no business wants to locate such a critical component to its overall mission in a place where... -
Making sense out of turning your data center green.
At the end of this summer, Prentice Hall published Marty Poniatowski’s Foundations of Green IT, a book on designing energy efficient data centers. The volume is a comprehensive discussion of consolidation, virtualization, efficiency and ROI in the data center....