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NextAdvisor picks its top cloud storage services for consumers
Product review site NextAdvisor.com now offers rankings of cloud storage services.
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Mozy releases 'Stash' file syncing service
Mozy released the beta of a new file synchronization service called Stash, which allows photos, videos or documents to be uploaded automatically to the cloud and shared across any device.
CommVault to combine backup, archive functions
CommVault plans to announce an upgrade to its flagship Simpana software in the next several weeks that will allow backed-up data to be archived while still leaving end users will an easy way to retrieve that data.
Oracle, Cloudera unveil Hadoop appliance
Oracle has partnered with Cloudera to bring Apache Hadoop to its Oracle Big Data Appliance, which the company officially released Tuesday.
NetApp becomes latest vendor to raise disk drive prices
NetApp announced it will raise the price of disk drives in its storage systems by 5% to 15% in the wake of Thailand's flooding, which affected the world hard drive supply.
Two IT managers fatally shot by co-worker at Calif. utility
Two IT managers were killed Friday afternoon by a co-worker at Southern California Edison in a workplace shooting.
Big data has potential but requires care
The proliferation of large-scale data sets is just beginning to change business and science around the world, but enterprises need to prepare in order to gain the most advantage from their information, panelists said at a Silicon Valley event this week.
Impact of hard drive shortage to linger through 2013
Flooding in Thailand will affect hard disk drive supplies into 2013, but the most significant impact is being felt now and will continue well into 2012 by companies such as PC maker Lenovo, which is telling its customers there are no more 7200-rpm replacement drives.
EMC's Greenplum goes big in data analytics
The Greenplum division of EMC is building a single data analytics platform that can crunch both structured and unstructured data and give a broad range of users the tools to study an enterprise's information.
HP announces enterprise-class deduplication appliance
Hewlett-Packard announced an enterprise-class deduplication appliance and a new Window's powered NAS array.
Business Continuity In Depth
Flexing NoSQL: MongoDB in review
MongoDB shines with broad programming language support, SQL-like queries, and out-of-the-box scaling
Enterprise Hadoop: Big data processing made easier
Amazon, Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM, and MapR mix simpler setup of Hadoop clusters with proprietary twists and trade-offs
Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed
A design decision made by Oracle architects long ago may have painted some of Oracle's largest customers into a corner. Patches have arrived, but how much will they correct?
Six Reasons Small Businesses Need Virtualization
If you run a small or mid-sized business, server virtualization promises cost savngs and improved IT efficiency. To help ensure you understand the advantages, we drew up a list of the most tangible benefits that virtualization has to offer small and mid-sized businesses
DigiSafe DiskCrypt does ultra-secure notebook disk encryption -- at a price
How much are you willing to pay to encrypt every bit of data on a notebook disk drive, without compromising performance? AT CES 2012, Singapore-based ST Electronics is showing its new DigiSafe DiskCrypt, which is relatively easy to set up, but it’s also very expensive -- the enclosure alone costs $450.
The cloud, day 21: My data might be safer in the cloud
It seems like an awful lot of faith to put in a third-party to expect it to protect my data. However, there is a flip side to that coin that suggests that maybe my data is better off in their hands than mine.
CIO Letter: Top Ten Tech Predictions for 2012
Michael Friedenberg, President and CEO of CIO magazine, weighs in with his top ten predictions for what will impact the IT-business landscape in 2012.
First look: Oracle NoSQL Database
Oracle's take on the distributed key-value data store is fast, flexible, and enterprise-grade serious
Disaster recovery 101: What you need to know
If your computers went down after the most recent storm and you lost some critical data, dont let that happen again. Read on. Insider (free registration required)
Hands on: StarTech's drive imager as simple as it gets
StarTech has released two devices for duplicating hard drives (or SSDs) to create exact bootable drive copies in about half the time of more traditional methods.
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Business Continuity White Papers
- TechRepublic: Cloud Computing - Potential Value for Your Company?
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Imagine a world without the hassle of licenses and hardware management - cloud computing makes this possible. Learn more about... - Forrester Analyst White Paper "The State of Enterprise Disaster Recovery Preparedness 2011"
- This report outlines five trends that enterprises are architecting to better equip their DR solutions today including: secondary site configuration and separation, cloud...
- Forrester Wave Report
- Improvements in disaster recovery plans and broad business continuity strategies are top-of-mind concerns for leading enterprises today and recovery time is now measured...
- Data Dedupe: It's not a question of if, rather where and when!
- There is no such thing as a data or information recession! Data keeps growing in almost every economic climate. Fixed or shrinking budgets...
- ESG: What's Changed with BC and DR?
- To succeed and thrive, today's organizations must create network environments that enable them to continue operations or recover in the shortest possible time.... All Business Continuity White Papers
Business Continuity Webcasts
- Customer Spotlight: How IPC The Hospitalist Company Implemented Oracle on VMware
- Have you been looking to hear about customer's experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? View this webcast to learn...
- Virtualizing Microsoft and Oracle on VMware vSphere: Benefits and Best Practices
- Virtualizing business-critical applications is an essential step in your journey to the cloud. Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint, and Oracle applications, are...
- Optimizing Networks for the Cloud
- Join guest speaker, Rohit Mehra, IDC Director of Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, to explore current trends, discuss best practices for optimizing Data Center and...
- Apps QuickStart Series Part 2: Designing and Deploying SQL Server on VMware vSphere
- Download this webcast to learn about the design considerations for virtualizing SQL workloads, performance and scalability information and high-availability options, as well as...
- Apps QuickStart Series Part 1: Designing and Deploying Exchange 2010 on VMware vSphere
- Download this webcast to learn the virtual hardware design considerations for Exchange 2010, deployment using the building block approach, options for high-availability and... All Business Continuity Webcasts