Data Centers

Dedupe Catching on Slowly.

Deduplication has been hailed as a significant tool for coping with runaway data growth in the data center, but adoption of the technology remains slow, according to survey from InformationWeek.

The Importance of Being Green for Data Centers

For data center operators who believe all this palaver about greening their facilities is just a fad, consider this: IT accounted for four percent of all electricity consumption in 2008, but by 2030, 40 percent of the world’s juice...

5 Ways to Downsize Your Storage Footprint & Reduce Costs

While the price of storage on a dollar-per-megabyte basis continues to drop, the costs associated with managing that storage continue to grow. One way to get a handle on those costs is to reduce your storage footprint. Bob Scheier...

New Study Shows Tape Still a Good Choice for Archival Data.

The results of a study by Fujifilm have been released that show Barium-Ferrite (BaFe) tape can preserve data reliably for more than 30 years.

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.

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...

Capacity Management Is Key to Keeping Data Centers Running Efficiently

High-density hardware can save space and iron out wrinkles in the refresh cycle in data centers, but it also poses power and cooling challenges. To prevent those challenges from producing costly outages, it’s wise to have a capacity management...

Using Ice (Yes, Ice) to Cool Your Data Center.

A consortium of utilities in California is launching a program to install in buildings a device that produce ice at night, then use the ice to cool the edifices during the day.

What Can Be Done about Energy-Hungry Apps in the Data Center?

If anything emerged from the Uptime Symposium last May in New York, it’s that organizations appear to be losing their fight to control their energy consumption. “There is a freight train coming that most people do not see, and it...

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...