Backup Data

Recovery from Disaster Miscalculated by Most Companies

How long will it take for your organization to recover from a disaster? Chances are that your response to that question is woefully inaccurate. Many people underestimate the window of disruption caused by calamity at their businesses.

Storage Firm Sanctioned $150K for eDiscovery Snafu

When you make your money making storage devices it’s a little embarrassing to show up in court without data that’s supposed to be safely stored on your hardware. It can be costly, too. That’s what storage titan SanDisk discovered...

The (5.2 Billion-Dollar) Future of the Mobile Cloud

Mobile devices will be playing a major role in the expansion of cloud computing in the coming years, according to ABI Research, a technology analysis and forecasting firm based in New York City. In a report released earlier this...

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...

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...

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...

Disaster Recovery Testing Is Becoming a Dying Art

Many companies have disaster recovery systems in place. Relatively few, though, know if they’ll work when disaster strikes. Speaking at a video briefing sponsored by Accela Communications, Gartner Research Vice President David Russell maintained that disaster recovery testing is...

Data Centers Embrace Solid State Drives

Solid state disk drive usage in data centers will explode over the next five years, according to a recent report from semiconductor market researcher Objective Analysis. In the firm’s Solid State Disk Market Outlook report it predicted that by...