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The (5.2 Billion-Dollar) Future of the Mobile Cloud
Mobile devices will be playing a major role in the expansion of cloud computing in the coming years, according to ABI Research, a technology analysis and forecasting firm based in New York City. In a report released earlier this... -
Will SharePoint Hurt Your Backup?
Microsoft’s sharing and collaboration platform, SharePoint, has been attracting users since its introduction in 2001. Companies are finding the software’s document sharing, team discussion and document-based workflow features hard to resist. However, organizations that depend only on the native... -
Hybrid Hard Drives Are Not Ready for Data Centers
The recent release by hard disk maker Seagate of it’s Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Drive—a disk drive that combines platter and flash memory storage in the same box—holds a lot of promise, but don’t expect to see its... -
Wisconsin “De-claws” eDiscovery Rules
Following the lead of the federal courts, the states have begun to put on their books procedures for handling the discovery of electronically stored information in legal proceedings. What’s interesting about what the states are doing is how... -
Tape Takes a Licking but Keeps on Spinning
Rapping tape as a storage medium has become au courant. One storage company, EMC, has gone so far as to start a campaign to dump the medium with the tag line “Tape Sucks.” These aspersions, however, are more a... -
RFID duels with bar codes for data center dominance.
Tracking assets in the data center has largely been the domain of the bar code, but RFID has begun to make inroads into the striped label’s territory. -
How to Run a Leaner, Greener Data Center.
Deadbeat servers can impose needless expenses on a data center. Decommissioning a single dead, or “ghost” server, can save as much $560 a year, although some analysts put that figure upwards of $2,000. For large server farms—farms with 100,000 servers a... -
Development & Testing May Be a Rich Area for the Cloud
It’s been estimated that 50 percent of the typical enterprise’s technology infrastructure is reserved for development and testing. Thing is, 90 percent of the time those reserved resources are idle. If that sounds to you like a problem dying... -
Disaster Recovery Testing Is Becoming a Dying Art
Many companies have disaster recovery systems in place. Relatively few, though, know if they’ll work when disaster strikes. Speaking at a video briefing sponsored by Accela Communications, Gartner Research Vice President David Russell maintained that disaster recovery testing is... -
Shrinking Backup Windows Squeeze Disaster Recovery Plans
The days of nights and weekend backup windows are over for many businesses. The global economy and the seven-day shopping week have made round-the-clock operations a necessity for many enterprises. What’s more, burgeoning data volumes with annual growth rates...