The Sarbanes-Oxley Act may mark a watershed in the law's ever-increasing impact on data storage. Yet how many have heard of it, let alone know what it is? Read more
Ghosts of storage past The storage industry in 2003 saw the relentless doubling of data storage needs, as well as a strong adoption of low cost ATA disk to allow much more data to be kept online. Disk vendors have responded well to data growth. We've seen the introduction of 146GB FC drives (up from 73GB in 2002) and 300GB ATA drives (up from 180GB in 2002) combined with continuing aggressive price reductions. Read more
Look at any business today, and it will almost certainly have become reliant on complex, critical, and distributed information systems. And yet, regardless of the size of that organisation, a contingency or disaster recovery plan is still something we often choose to have rather than something we are forced to implement. It's often a subject that's low on our list of priorities, and can be frequently overlooked. Read more
A study by the university of Texas found that only six per cent of companies that suffer a catastrophic data loss survive, while 43 per cent never re-open and 51 per cent collapse within two years. Which category would your company fit into? Read more
Driven by dramatic cost and performance improvements, networked storage is quickly gaining momentum in the enterprise IT market. For example, companies that deploy a Storage Area Network (SAN) can reduce storage costs by more than 50 percent when compared to the cost of traditional storage solutions. Read more
IT organizations have the seemingly impossible task of supporting over 60 percent annual storage growth while reducing their total cost of doing business. This has put an incredible strain on storage administrators and puts an equally incredible strain on IT budgets. Read more
Client communication is increasingly based on email, resulting in growing demand for rapid response and constant availability. Read more
For ZDF, a data crash could have fatal consequences Read more
In April 1999 Practitioner Services, a new division within the Common Services Agency (CSA) part of NHS Scotland, was created to provide administrative support to all primary care practitioners including family doctors, dentists, community pharmacists and opticians. Read more
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