Archive for March, 2011
Why You Should Care About NoSQL
Over the past several years, tech headlines have been increasingly peppered with the term “NoSQL.” One can quibble about the accuracy and usefulness of that term (and many do), but that conversation can and should be ignored. What can’t be ignored, however, is the dramatic transformation in software systems that is driving the emergence and [...]
Full StoryThe Growing Role Of Data Analysis in Energy Cost Reduction and Alternative Energy Adoption
Brad Van Orden studied mechanical engineering in college, and during his junior year, decided to embark on an independent study project to design a hybrid wind and solar energy system for a local ranch. At the time, he didn’t have much renewable energy experience and assumed that the project would be relatively simple. It turned [...]
Full StoryPreserving Data for Future Searches
It is not unusual for companies to be faced with the sudden challenge of needing to produce a large amount of electronically stored information (ESI) in a very short period of time for litigation, regulatory purposes or other investigations. This is becoming an even bigger concern as data volumes increase and courts and government agencies [...]
Full StoryThe Effect of Time of On The Importance of Files
Traditionally, companies and individuals have manually performed their backups on a scheduled, periodic basis. Of course, there are many problems associated with this approach. The first problem has to do with the flawed nature of humans. We always say that we’re going to do the backups on a regular basis. But as time goes on, [...]
Full StoryOptimizing Your WAN And Minimizing Distance Induced Latency
Certeon is the application performance company. aCelera, Certeon’s suite of software WAN optimization products, delivers automated secure and optimized access to centralized applications for any user, accessing any application, on any device, across any network. With Certeon, enterprises and cloud providers successfully realize key initiatives, including consolidation, virtualization, replication and application SLA’s. Certeon’s aCelera is [...]
Full StoryThe Difference Between Global, Enterprise-Level and Machine-Level Deduplication
There is no arguing that the amount of data being created daily is increasing exponentially over that created just a few years ago. Not all of the data is “new;” much of the data being stored today is a copy of something that already exists. These duplicate records might be a copy of a PowerPoint [...]
Full StoryThe Benefits of iSCSI as Cloud Storage Protocol
iSCSI continues to represent a dramatic shift in the evolution of storage area networks (SANs). iSCSI gives IT organizations an alternative, less complex solution to deploy a more economical networked storage infrastructure to meet changing data and storage requirements. Businesses of all sizes are adopting iSCSI because it’s easy to install, inexpensive, behaves just like [...]
Full StoryGranola: The solution to your IT energy growing pains
Miserware set out to make power management software for the data center because they have a technology that guarantees performance while saving energy in those types of systems critical to the data center. Early versions only work on Linux and were designed for networks of servers. They had to test for every possible system, so [...]
Full StoryNew Medical Facility Designed For Energy Efficiency. In The Server Room and Beyond
St. Luke’s Magic Valley, a new state-of-the-art healthcare facility serving South Central Idaho will open its doors May 21, 2011. This 700,000 square foot, 186 bed, medical center offers all private patient rooms, designed to promote maximum patient comfort and quality patient care. Given that energy efficiency is such a hot topic within IT, I [...]
Full StoryBe On The Lookout For Email Hoarders
Disk space presents a major challenge for both the IT professionals managing a company’s messaging environment and its avid email users. There is never enough disk space to keep everything. Since many email users would like do just that, it creates two competing interests. Online consumer email applications such as Gmail, Yahoo! and Hotmail have [...]
Full StorySaaS Is Worthless Without An Offline Fallback Option
When I was fresh out of college, one of the first jobs that I had was working for a division of a major bank. These people really understood the importance of resiliency and disaster preparedness. And one day, I got to witness this first-hand. Something happened to their internal systems, and the customer management system [...]
Full StoryThe Difference Between rsync, File-based and Block-based Deduplication
QuorumSoft was founded and their first generation of Alike software, was launched in 2008. The two founders, Max Ekstrom and Phil Baskette, shared a belief that a backup solution based on data deduplication had tremendous business potential. Working collaboratively, they developed the Alike solution, which addresses the need for quick and easy implementation and the [...]
Full StoryToday’s Business Challenge in the Storage industry
Traditional means of deploying and managing storage have become outdated. The exponential growth in storage requirements has put an enormous strain on existing storage systems, and customers are very often forced to upgrade their systems to meet the growing needs. Often, this results in fork lift upgrades at an enormous cost coupled with the requirement [...]
Full StoryVirtualization Is Changing The Way Businesses Protect Their Data
We are currently witnessing a convergence of three trends within IT: the explosion of virtualization, cloud computing and the growth of storage within these environments. These trends, affecting the majority of businesses in some form or other, have left IT scrambling to manage very complex and rapidly changing environments, as many of the tools of [...]
Full StoryThe New Security Realities of the Laptop Computing Era – Part 1
There’s no doubt that today, the use of laptops in business is nearly ubiquitous. Laptops began outselling desktops in 2008 and the number of laptops sold over desktops continues to increase. Research shows businesses’ use of laptops has risen from an average of one in every five PC users in 1999 to one in three [...]
Full StoryHow Cellular-Enabled Machine-to-Machine M2M Communications and Networking Will Change The Way You Live
KORE began operating in 2003 with the mission to be a pure-play machine-to-machine (M2M) network services provider on a global scale. The genesis of the company was their observation that traditional cellular carriers were not serving the M2M market need due to the fact that solution providers needed extensive roaming, with minimal ARPU for the [...]
Full StoryHow to Achieve a Duplicate-Free Sync Using The Hub-And-Spoke Approach
This is a guest article from Rushang Shah of CompanionLink Software Duplicates. Seeing 12 copies of the same contact or calendar event can be quite frustrating. It can also seriously affect your productivity, as sifting through extra data takes time. Setting up a proper sync is crucial in avoiding duplicates. There are two main rules [...]
Full StoryEffective Records Management – When Going From Millions To Billions Of Files
ZL provides cutting-edge enterprise software solutions for e-mail & file archiving for compliance, litigation support, corporate governance & storage. The Company started in 1999, and set out to solve very large scale messaging problems. The initial target was the carrier space, where green field opportunities presented in areas like ASP, ISP, and wireless carriers, where [...]
Full Story8 Key Advantages That Cloud Computing Delivers to IT
Often resource constrained, IT departments in companies and government organizations are immersed in workday responsibilities needed to support the business. Cloud computing can help take pressure off IT staff while also helping deliver measurable business benefits. For instance, with cloud computing, organizations can leverage the benefits of a shared IT infrastructure without having to implement [...]
Full StoryKiller B2B Advice For Google Analytics
B2B companies have some interesting challenges when it comes to monitoring their visitors. They generally spend much more on a per-visitor basis than a B2C company would, and their traffic volumes are often too low to extract any useable data. And online ad rates are only going up, as consumers stop responding to other traditional [...]
Full StoryCan Deduplication Really Reduce Data Storage By 95 Percent?
CA is a well-known world leader in the Enterprise IT Management Software space, and they have a lot of deep insight into the business issues surrounding deduplication. Today, I’ll be interviewing Frank Jablonski, Senior Director of Product Marketing for the Data Management business at CA Technologies. Backup deduplication is a hot topic in IT right [...]
Full StoryHow to create a Governable Identity Model
I constantly see and hear about examples of identity and security issues that come are due to poor governance. For example, I have come across companies where ex-employees still have their Salesforce accounts six months after they’ve left. At other times, there is a simple black-and-white access control model: either the employee has full access [...]
Full StoryAmazing Video: Upgrading Through Every Windows Version
This is absolutely incredible! Have a look.
Full StoryThe Sleazy History And Questionable Inner-Workings Of Electronic Voting Machines
In a democracy, perhaps nothing is more sacred than the right to vote. Our ability to elect our representation not only forms and defines our government, but it also defines us. Yet ironically, this abstract and profound heritage dating back to 5th century Athens is completely contingent on how we vote. Since the ancient Greeks, [...]
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