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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... -
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... -
The Dangers of Ignoring Social Media during Backups.
If you think you can ignore the social networking and social media content created by your organization in your storage plans, you’d better think about that again. Sure, there’s plenty of noise being generated at places like Facebook, LinkedIn... -
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... -
Economic Slump Over for eDiscovery
After months of miserly spending on technology, it appears that law firms are loosening their purse strings. Legal hours and matters are up 40 percent this year over last and a chief beneficiary of the increase in income at... -
Cloud Fails to Win Hearts & Minds of Consumers
Cloud computing–the ability to perform online functions typically in the domain of the desktop–has created a deafening buzz in corporate circles but consumers appear to be less than enamored with the technology. A recent Harris Interactive poll, for instance,... -
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. -
Group Seeks to Enliven Archival Storage
As organizations try to cope with the spiraling growth of the data they create every day, more and more of that information is being sent to archives. A problem with archival storage is finding the archived data stored there... -
Good Data Center Space Getting Hard to Find
Real estate in cyberspace may be infinite, but in metaspace it’s not, as one data center builder is finding out. Equinix, a data center operator based in Foster City, Calif., said at an earnings conference call this month that...