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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... -
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... -
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... -
How to Smoothly Switch to a New Backup System.
With so much new tech appearing every day, your old backup system may start to look like an old Toyota with 100,000 miles on it. Unlike dumping an old gas burner, though, moving to a new backup application can... -
eDiscovery Creeps into Arbitration.
Arbitration is supposed to be a quicker and more economical way to settle disputes than litigation, but the introduction of electronic discovery (eDiscovery) into the process could take away its appeal to businesses. How to handle requests for electronic... -
Cloud Computing’s Seven Top Security Threats
As attractive as the promises of cloud computing are, an overarching concern over security in the nimbus has become a drag chute on the technology’s adoption by businesses. Why are companies concerned? Here are seven of the major risks...