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Data Centers Go Wireless
Looking for a micro local view of the temperatures around the racks and shelves in your data center? If you’re Microsoft, you’re turning to wireless sensor networks to find out that information in your centers worldwide. The program began... -
Cloud Disaster Recovery is Just Pie in the Sky (at least right now)
While some cloud computing vendors would like you to believe backing up data to the nimbus is the same as disaster recovery from it, it isn’t. Cloud backup involves replicating data and storing it off the premises of its... -
Business Balking on Cloud Storage
While the cloud may have an irresistible attraction to some businesses for some purposes, storage doesn’t seem to be one of them—at least according to some recent findings from Forrester Research. In a report titled “Business Users Are Not... -
Storage Pros Worried by Resource Shortfalls
An increasing number of business technology professionals are saying they’re worried about meeting the storage demands of critical applications in their organizations, according to recently released findings by InformationWeek Analytics. -
Staff Cuts & Talent Shortages Are Plaguing Data Centers
Data center managers are being whipsawed by payroll paring and a dearth of qualified candidates, according to a recent survey conducted by Applied Research for security software maker Symantec. The worldwide poll of data center specialists in 1,780 enterprises... -
Research May Prolong Tape’s Life for 10 Years.
Just when the doom buglers are ready to blow taps for tape as an archival medium (once again), researchers seem to find a way to prolong the life of it. Some recent news from IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratories in Switzerland... -
Private Clouds Trade Benefits for Security
Corporations guard their data jealously, and who can blame them? In the Information Age, data is to business as blood is to life. So it’s not surprising that any paradigm that removes an enterprise’s direct control of its data... -
Court Rules Metadata Part of eDiscovery
The inclination of federal courts to require metadata be included with electronic documents obtained through e-discovery seems to be seeping down to the state courts. In a case decided by the Arizona Supreme Court last fall, justices flipped two... -
Saving Power Can Cause Problems for Your Data Center
Today’s computer processors are designed to save power. But that wasn’t always the case. Technology once reserved for conserving juice on notebook computers has been incorporated into desktop computers and servers. While generally this has been a good development,... -
Why Data Categorization Is Essential when Creating Security Plans
When planning security for a data center many things pop into mind—firewalls, anti-virus software, filtering—but data categorization may not be one of them. Yet, some security experts would argue that building silos for classifying data is the cornerstone of...