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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... -
Can Cabling Really Contribute to Greening Your Data Center?
Discussions about greening data centers typically focus on cooling systems and managing the power requirements of servers. Often left out of those planning sessions is the role cabling can play in contributing to making a data center more environmentally... -
How the Cloud Cuts Costs
Anyone with even the faintest brush with economics knows about the magic of scale. Actually, there’s noting magic about it at all. The principle is simple: the more of something you produce, the less it costs to produce it.... -
Should the cloud be more regulated?
Should the federal government regulate the cloud? Apparently, Microsoft thinks so. Softzilla is asking Congress to pass legislation to regulate cloud computing. -
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...