News

• From what to watt, Emerson aims at total information awareness

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 17 May, 2012 07:22

  Someday soon the digital economy will be powered by big black boxes, formerly known as datacentres, that are so self-managing they may be partly robotic.

• Business continuity emerges as latest IPv6 killer app

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 12 April, 2012 02:26

  DENVER - IPv6 appears to have found a new killer app: business continuity.

• Facebook, Twitter are life lines as tornadoes wallop Texas

  By Sharon Gaudin | 05 April, 2012 03:17

  As tornadoes ripped through Texas on Tuesday, hurling tractor-trailer trucks in the air and shredding houses, people took to social networks to warn of advancing storms and to help their neighbors.

• Disaster Recovery on Double Duty

  By Robert L. Scheier | 26 March, 2012 21:43

  At Ingram Micro, executive president and CIO Mario Leone doesn't think about how much he will spend on disaster recovery.

• Quantum unveils enterprise-class cloud backup services

  By Lucas Mearian | 21 March, 2012 15:21

  Quantum today announced an enterprise-class backup service that includes data deduplication aimed at protecting data in virtual server environments.

• In the cloud, your data can get caught up in legal actions

  By Thomas J. Trappler | 21 March, 2012 03:19

  We all know that the data we rely on to run our businesses can be subject to subpoena and other government actions. Such actions create additional risks when that data is in the cloud .

• Who's to Blame When IT Breaks?

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 13 March, 2012 00:56

  There's always a reason why things break in data centers, and the powers that be can usually find someone to blame -- whether that someone is an IT operations staff member, an OEM, a systems integrator or a third-party service provider.

• NextAdvisor picks its top cloud storage services for consumers

  By Lucas Mearian | 10 February, 2012 09:29

  Consumer and small business product review site NextAdvisor.com this month launched a new category , with reviews and comparisons of the best cloudstorage services.

• Mozy releases 'Stash' file syncing service

  By Lucas Mearian | 26 January, 2012 06:31

  Cloud storage service Mozy on Wednesday announced public beta availability of Mozy Stash , a new feature that provides customers with a method of accessing files across multiple computers and mobile devices.

• How to improve disaster recovery preparedness

  By Rachel Dines | 19 January, 2012 09:22

  If you woke up tomorrow and ran a marathon, how would you fare? It's highly doubtful that you would successfully run the 26.2 miles without months of training, drills, and exercises.

• NetApp, Iron Mountain team up on medical archive service

  By Lucas Mearian | 30 November, 2011 03:37

  Iron Mountain today announced a secure cloud-based archive service for medical data based on NetApp's grid-architecture, object-based, storage software.

• Virtual Machine cloud replication and restoration to boom

  By Lucas Mearian | 08 November, 2011 22:09

  By 2014, almost one in three midsize businesses will be using a recovery-as-a-service (RaaS) with the ability to backup and restore virtual machines (VMs), according to Gartner.

• At Houston Bank, Disaster Recovery Goes Virtual

  By Stephanie Overby | 01 November, 2011 08:57

  The Project: Implement a hypervisor-based replication system to provide more streamlined business continuity and disaster recovery for Woodforest National Bank's virtualized data center.

• Duqu, Stuxnet link unclear

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 27 October, 2011 13:34

  A report by Dell SecureWorks on Wednesday debunked the idea that the newly discovered Duqu Trojan is related to last year's Stuxnet worm or was created by the same authors.

• Target.com's second site crash could become e-comm nightmare

  By Sharon Gaudin | 27 October, 2011 07:06

  For the second time in six weeks, Target's Web site crashed Tuesday, and that is scary news for any major retailer heading into the holiday shopping season.