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How closely are you monitoring?
Comment We have a healthcare provider growing its storage area network requirements by a bunch of gigabytes per month," he says. Management and control sessions can be easily analysed to look for after-hours access that doesn't match normal usage patterns... [10 Dec 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: An overlooked way to save money
Comment Whilst IT managers have focused primarily on consolidating desktops, servers, storage, applications and networks, the print environment has been largely overlooked. With security, software licences and wireless rollouts taking up IT chiefs' time... [13 Jul 2006]
The McCue Interview: Dell CIO Randy Mott
Comment In terms of IT infrastructure that translates into some 72,161 client systems, 13,859 servers (Dell, of course), 62 global wide area networks and one petabyte of storage (equivalent to 200 times the contents of the library of the British museum). [09 Aug 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Security for SMBs
Comment Forty per cent of mid-sized businesses are using advanced network-based storage options. PC back-ups can be aggregated on a central server or networked storage device if a dedicated server is not available. [28 Jan 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Convergence here at last?
Comment Omnetica was formed 98 years later in 2002, by combining the skills base of Siemens Network Systems in the UK, Arche Communications in France and PRES in Italy and has accumulated significant expertise in IP networking, security and storage. [14 Jan 2005]
Analysis: NAS and SAN uniting
Comment EMC, IBM and less well-known storage specialists such as BlueArc are beginning to mix and match the best elements of network-attached storage (NAS) devices and storage area networks (SAN) to improve the efficiency and lower the cost of storing data. [26 Jan 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Governance checklist, back-up for utility computing and Nauticus
Comment These activities include the management of high quality business reporting processes and the secure storage and assured retrieval of high quality data and unstructured documents. IT industry giant Sun Microsystems has announced its plans to acquire... [25 Jan 2004]
Through the fog… IT security investment
Comment There are again many pros: increased employee productivity and responsiveness, reduced internal network traffic, reduced storage requirements, mitigation of legal risks if employees are exposed to unseemly content and so on. [19 Nov 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Linux in utility computing, Ellison the visionary and hotspot models
Comment The idea is starting to emerge that you virtualise storage with SANs and NAS and you virtualise server hardware with Linux - thus making it feasible to switch applications from one server to another automatically and quickly. [22 Jul 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: RFID, crazy California law and smut in Iran
Comment With this capability, tags can be fitted to products and the movement of that product can then be traced from the manufacturing plant, through transportation and storage, right down to when the product is placed on a shelf in a shop. [07 Jul 2003]
Through the fog... Storage as a service
Comment And if the file and data repositories really start playing up, you can always implement a storage area network (SAN), the last word in ensuring your storage is seen and not heard. Storage can seem so boring but the message is clear - ignore the... [04 Apr 2003]
What's the fuss about... storage networking?
Comment This model gives us storage area networks or SANs. Can't blag your way through a storage networking conversation? The most fundamental storage management application is (still) back-up and restore, with the most important being restore. [06 Sep 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Egg payments, the ultra-PC and Cisco the storage company?
Comment Last year the company used its experience to create a new switch, the SN5420, targeted squarely at storage, specifically to provide secure access to Fibre Channel storage across IP networks through Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI... [26 Apr 2002]
Have we gone MAN overboard?
Comment Not a killer app with quite the cache of email or text messaging but if predictions that before the end of this decade we will create as much data as the entire human race did in its existence hitherto, then data storage could be the challenge... [05 Nov 2001]
The Ovum View: Wireless streaming - with strings attached
Comment On the positive side, streaming will be a more attractive solution given the high cost of storage and the diffusion of Bluetooth-compatible devices. On the positive side, streaming requires only buffering and not the download of an entire file... [23 Jul 2001]
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