Control of unstructured information is key to storage issues, according to John Mancini, President of AIIM International. Read more
Jeremy Edwards and Andi Willmott from network performance management specialist NetEvidence share some of their predictions for the technologies and trends we'll see making a major impact in the networking arena during 2006. Read more
The business requirements for record archives have evolved extremely rapidly over the last few years. Major financial scandals and a number of recent incidents involving large-scale data loss have turned the spotlight on the management of digital archives. An increased awareness of the value and liability of archive records has resulted in both industry regulation and internal operational risk management. Read more
In his novel, Animal Farm, George Orwell observed that, "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." Considering how our view of information management has changed dramatically over the past two decades, Orwell's oft-quoted phrase might today be equally applied to data. By Paul Higginbottom, Hammer. Read more
"Business continuity is integral to protecting a company's reputation and IT continuity needs to be high on the priority list. It is extraordinary how many companies will allow their business-critical and customer facing applications to run on servers located in a basement or corner of an office with no uninterruptible power supply (UPS), unsuitable cooling and expensive connectivity. The costs involved in moving these servers to a third party data centre is much less than most businesses imagine and would be quickly outweighed by the savings achieved in management resource, space, and power. Improvements in levels of resilience would also be increased dramatically." Read more
Information, and therefore storage decisions, are at the heart of every IT infrastructure in every small to medium sized business in the UK today. Companies in this space must start taking a holistic view of data management, argues Bob Aitchison, Senior Regional Manager, EMEA, QLogic Corporation, and that means taking a fresh look at Storage Area Networking. Read more
The preservation of digital data is more than just storing data long-term. It's about protecting archived data amidst technological advancements, managing escalating data volumes created in a greater variety of formats, and ensuring data authenticity and accessibility over time. Read more
Be clear in your objectives, and you'll find that email archiving can slot into your organisation just as you planned. Read more
While storage area networks have provided significant end user value for centralizing data storage, high speed delivery and high availability, current SAN architectures impose a rigid infrastructure on upper layer business applications. Modern business applications require scalability, flexibility and responsive distribution of functionality in the underlying storage infrastructure. By Robin Pilcher, McData. Read more
Policies, Directives, Standards, Procedure control and management within an organization. Read more
As the price of storage continues to drop, several technologies seem to be emerging to threaten tape as the frontrunner for long-term data storage needs. The two most predominant contenders are low-cost magnetic disk (e.g., Advanced Technology Attachment [ATA], Serial ATA) and optical disk (e.g., DVD, blue laser DVD enhancements ["Blu-ray"] and HD-DVD). Each of these technologies, however, has inherent limitations that will prevent them from becoming a replacement for tape in the foreseeable future. Tape will remain a critical element of enterprise storage strategies for years to come. Read more
Avert-IT was formed in 2003 with the concept of providing valuable storage services to customers in convenient packages at affordable prices. Through expertise and innovation, Avert-IT takes complexity and cost out of mass data storage, business continuity and advice, solutions and management for disaster recovery with full 24/7 support. Supporting this, Avert-IT also conceived and developed a concept it calls "Virtual Lab", where users have global operational capability for information, classroom and virtual delivery anywhere in the world from a single source location. The Virtual Lab is located at Highfield Park, near Hook in Hampshire. (http://www.avert-it.com). Read more
Grid computing is a much-hyped technology, allowing many low-cost computers to work together on complex problems, for example the analysis of X-rays for medical diagnostics in the European MammoGrid project. Read more
As business moves away from paper, and email traffic increases by 50 percent each year, how can a medium-sized company back up its vital business data regularly without putting further strain on server capacity? Read more
The term "utility computing" arguably means different things to different people. Read more
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