Backup Tape Management

The Reports of Tape’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

Tape as a storage medium has been pronounced dead as often as paper has as a medium for documents. Those pronouncements from so-called experts don’t seem to have prevented the $3 billion printer industry from turning a tidy profit...

Where should you locate your next data center?

Geography may have lost its luster among curriculum creators, but it remains an important consideration when planning a data center. After all, no business wants to locate such a critical component to its overall mission in a place where...

Making sense out of turning your data center green.

At the end of this summer, Prentice Hall published Marty Poniatowski’s Foundations of Green IT, a book on designing energy efficient data centers. The volume is a comprehensive discussion of consolidation, virtualization, efficiency and ROI in the data center....

Who you gonna trust? Apparently not Google.

As Google tries to expand beyond the search engine business, it’s meeting resistance from some IT quarters. On the surface it may seem that IT managers are worrying about their job security as the King of Search tries to...

Data Archiving Tools: What Works for You?

Every day I open my inbox to see news feeds of the latest applications and data archiving tools.   

Is Your Data eDiscovery-Safe?

I think about eDiscovery data issues on a daily basis and have begun to wonder: Is it just me? Because we are immersed in data storage issues, I forget that perhaps not everyone knows the risks involved with a...

What Effects Will Google Wave Have on eDiscovery?

Google Wave set out to reinvent email for the 21st century. However with its ability to post content in different areas simultaneously (e.g., Waves and blogs), it raises more than a few e-Discovery questions. I came across a blog article...

Why Cloud Computing Makes Sense…for Some.

One of the key selling points of cloud computing is that a company can pick and choose IT services from a provider (or, ideally, several providers) as needed, but not have to invest in building up its own IT...

How to Decommissions Servers, Increase Data Center Space and Remain Compliant.

Just finished reading an article on practical steps data center managers can take to help free up much needed space in data centers.   The article is good and offers many practical solutions concerning consolidating data, or eliminating unused...

A Cloud by Any Other Name…

Cloud computing: is it the best new IT idea today or just a shiny repackaging of familiar services? The answer likely depends on who you talk to. Debate over the virtues of cloud computing has received a good deal...