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It’s Time for Tape to Go on the Offensive
It's time to stop defending tape and start focusing proactively on the benefits tape brings to the enterprise and the complementary role it plays to other storage media. -
Our Hearts Go Out to the People of Japan; Our Thoughts Turn to Disaster Recovery
How many disaster recovery plans assume that recovery will take weeks, or even months or longer? How many plans consider that none of the company’s technology—from cell phones to servers—may be working for some time? What is your DR... -
Turns Out, Tape Doesn’t Suck.
As the recent snafu at Google with their gMail product has shown, tape definitely has a place in the modern data center. We'll show why the sentiment that "Tape Sucks!" is untrue and why "Turns Out, Tape Doesn't Suck"... -
Why the Google Incident Proves Relevance of Tape Storage
The death of tape stroage has been talked about for 20 years, yet when a software bug got into Gmail on Feb. 28 and threatened to seriously disable the accounts of tens of thousands of users, Google used tape... -
Turn Your Data Center Green by Doing Business as Usual
Data center administrators do not, necessarily, have to be proactive to make their data center greener. They can conduct business as usual and still see their data center deepen its emerald hue. -
Will a New Bill Virtually Eliminate the HITECH Act?
Recently legislation was introduced into the house that has some some backers of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act 2009) up in arms. -
The Top Five Blog Posts for January
Once again, I thought it would be nice to hightlight the top five posts (according to traffic) from January, just in case you missed them. -
Can Eliminating Fans Really Help You Save Energy in the Data Center?
To reduce energy costs, Microsoft is taking the fans out of their servers and allowing the facilities to provide the airflow to cool the servers. But will this work in the long run and how will it affect its... -
Are Mobile Chips Strong-ARMing Their Way into Data Centers?
Once upon a time the mainframe was king of the data center. It lost its crown to the minicomputer. Then Unix servers came along to knock the minis off their throne. Now x86 servers reign supreme. The question is,... -
Why EMC’s Data Domain Archiver Is Not Really a Threat to Tape
EMC has heralded their new Data Domain Archiver as the death knell to tape (haven't we heard that before??). But a closer look reveals their are some concerns that should be addressed.