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Better Backups of Virtual Data
Virtualization has produced many benefits for corporate data centers, but it’s also produced some challenges. One of those challenges is how to protect the data on the new crop of virtual servers while maintaining their high availability to users. -
Cloud Computing’s Seven Top Security Threats
As attractive as the promises of cloud computing are, an overarching concern over security in the nimbus has become a drag chute on the technology’s adoption by businesses. Why are companies concerned? Here are seven of the major risks... -
Is There Hypocrisy in the Cloud?
Do as I say, not as I do. How many times has a child heard that bit of sophistry from a hypocritical adult? That kind of lip service isn’t reserved to duplicitous parents, though, as Robin Harris recently pointed... -
The Top 10 Things to Consider Before You Move to the Cloud.
If you want to reap the benefits of cloud computing for your organization, you’ll make sure that any business you conduct with a provider is grounded in a solid legal agreement and not thin air. -
Foul Weather in the Cloud for Lawyers?
Wherever you turn in the tech space these days it seems that you can’t escape the cloud. The idea that the burden information technology has imposed on businesses for years can be sloughed off to some magic realm where... -
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... -
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... -
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.