Storage

Seagate's Central hits a home run in the NAS game

Shaw reviews the Seagate Central network-attached hard drive.

By Keith Shaw | 01 May, 2013 20:57

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, network-attached storage, storage, network attached storage, hardware systems, nas, Data Center, network attached hard drive, seagate, Seagate Central

Sizing your disk backup and deduplication system to avoid future missteps

Correctly sizing a disk backup with deduplication to meet your current and future needs is an important part of your data protection strategy. If you ask the right questions upfront and analyze each aspect of your environment that impacts backup requirements, you can avoid the consequences of buying an undersize system that quickly exceeds capacity.

By Bill Andrews | 26 April, 2013 20:34

Tags: storage

iOS VPNs and portable storage for Apple devices

First up, serious networking stuff concerning Apple and how iOS supports VPNs and how it won't in future.

By Mark Gibbs | 10 April, 2013 16:12

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Apple, network storage, security, hardware systems, Data Center

Big Data the security answer?

The recent RSA conference in San Francisco was awash in talk of big data, but it was clear there was some disagreement about what people mean by big data and some outright skepticism about it being the answer.

By John Dix | 11 March, 2013 11:23

Tags: securtiy big data, applications, splunk, security information and event management, data mining, software, big data, Zappos, SIEM, emc, RSA Conference, security

LinkedIn open sources its database change capture system

OK, lots of interesting stuff for you this week. First up, LinkedIn has open sourced a system called Databus, a real-time database change capture system that provides a "timeline-consistent stream of change capture events ... grouped in transactions, in source commit order."

By Mark Gibbs | 27 February, 2013 15:25

Tags: unified communications, Configuration / maintenance, Internet-based applications and services, network storage, applications, storage, Networking, LinkedIn, hardware systems, Data Center, internet, Storage Management, Web 2.0, software, collaboration, social media

Data backup should never be Plan B

Data is more important to businesses today than it has ever been, doing everything from revealing trends in customer behavior to comparing sales performance across business units and regions. Comprehensive data collection provides the who, what, when and how associated with almost all organizational activity. This information is incredibly valuable to executives because it plays a critical role in strategic business decisions. As such, all businesses - big and small - must have a data backup strategy in place to protect against data loss.

By Mark Lafferty, Director, Systems Solutions, Servers and Storage, CDW | 25 February, 2013 12:00

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, network storage, smb, hardware systems, Ponemon Institute, CDW, Data Center, SMB Networking

Opinion: Predicting the tech future

For my recent column of predictions for 2013 I polled a huge number of IT people to see what they are expecting, and ended up getting more than 400 responses.

By Mark Gibbs | 15 February, 2013 23:19

Tags: marketing, unified communications, communications, social networking, internet, IT management, business intelligence, analytics, services, Cloud, productivity, predictions, business, advertising, business issues, IT, Internet-based applications and services, open source, applications, storage, Networking, hardware systems, big data, mobile, industry verticals, cloud computing, Data Center, management, virtualization, security, it strategy, software, collaboration, Development, Configuration / maintenance, Blog, infrastructure management, data mining

WD ups its streaming TV game with WD TV Play

Shaw reviews Western Digital's WD TV Play, by Western Digital.

By Keith Shaw | 12 February, 2013 14:13

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Hulu, Pandora, Apple TV, hardware systems, internet tv, Data Center, youtube, Facebook, Spotify, WD, WD TV Play, CinemaNow, Roku, netflix, western digital, Vudu

Review: Seagate Wireless Plus

The scoop: Wireless Plus mobile storage, by Seagate, about $200 (1TB capacity)

By Keith Shaw | 16 January, 2013 21:56

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Apple, network storage, Networking, wireless, hardware systems, Data Center, anti-malware

Bart Perkins: After Superstorm Sandy, an opportunity to be better prepared

The whole point of an information systems contingency plan is to be prepared before catastrophe strikes. Unfortunately, we're all adept at postponing planning.

By Bart Perkins | 14 January, 2013 11:04

Tags: management, Configuration / maintenance, disaster recovery, applications, Networking, hardware systems, software, Data Center

The season for quantifying enterprise happiness

Hitachi has a system that can analyze how happy your organization is and maybe even re-engineer it to make it happier!

By Mark Gibbs | 03 December, 2012 06:03

Tags: sociometrics, Configuration / maintenance, applications, happiness, hardware systems, software, hitachi, Data Center, business intelligence, analytics

Review: G-Connect wireless storage for iPad

Shaw reviews G-Connect wireless storage for iPad, by G-Technology by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.

Just linking could get you 10 years in jail

UK citizen Richard O'Dwyer faces the possibility of ten years in the slammer for having a site that linked to pirated content

Seagate adds social backup to external drives

Shaw reviews Seagate's Backup Plus external storage drives, Rubbo International's D-Wings.

The Great Verizon Network Extender rip-off

A few months ago I started writing about my saga of getting AT&T U-verse DSL service established at the new location of the Gibbs Universal Industries Secret Underground Bunker.

The time for NoSQL standards is now

Like Larry Ellison's yacht, the RDBMS is sailing into the sunset. But if NoSQL is to take its place, a standard query language and APIs must emerge soon

Ubuntu's marketing kick: Is Canonical the next Apple?

Another six months has passed and another version of Ubuntu Linux has been released, right? Wrong. Ubuntu 11.04 ‘Natty Narwhal’ arrived today and so did a new marketing direction from its parent company and principle sponsor, Canonical. And its flavour has a hint of Apple.

By Rodney Gedda | 29 April, 2011 14:20

Tags: Apple, Linux, app stores, music, canonical, unity, cloud computing, desktop linux, ubuntu

EMC gets Data Domain, now what?

NetApp Inc. said "uncle" yesterday after EMC Corp. outbid it for a second time in its quest to acquire Data Domain Inc, but some industry observers believe EMC, in its zeal to acquire the deduplication vendor, may have overpaid for the prize and could have a difficult time realizing a return on its investment.

By Lucas Mearian | 10 July, 2009 07:18

Tags: netapp, emc, data domain

Data deduplication for SMEs: What to look out for

Data redundancy is a primary contributor to the explosive growth in data. Initially deduplication focused on eliminating data redundancy in specific cases like full backups, e-mail attachments, and VMware images. Over time, however, customers have noticed the pervasiveness of duplicated data.

By Paul McClure | 22 April, 2009 14:40

Tags: storage, commvault, backup, deduplication

How a flash drive could be the solution to laptop security

Why is Sony bothering with entertainment when it could be using flash drives to dramatically improve laptop data security?

By Mike Elgan | 12 December, 2008 12:38

Tags: storage, security, sony