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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... -
Know Before You Go (Down): Will You Be Able to Get Back Up?
Given that we’re retaining data on tape longer than ever before, will we be able to restore from these tapes in the face of a disaster? -
5 Reasons Why Google Uses Tape for Disaster Recovery
I blogged recently about Why the Google Incident Proves Relevance of Tape Storage. Now I’d like to take it a step further and look at the top five reasons why I think Google uses tape backup for disaster recovery. -
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... -
No One Told Oracle Tape Is Dead
Pessimistic prognostications about the future of tape storage in the enterprise abound, but they don't seem to be deterring new products from coming to market or tape makers from planning for the long haul. -
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. -
How Sampling Can Reduce Your eDiscovery Burden
eDiscovery requests can overwhelm even the most organized IT department. One way to lighten the load for all parties involved in the eDiscovery process in a case is by using sampling. -
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.