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• 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.

• Large enterprises handing off data center builds

  By Ann Bednarz | 23 April, 2012 20:29

  Demand for data center space is on the rise. IT pros responsible for facility planning are juggling physical requirements for secure, power-abundant space with operational considerations, including the need to improve disaster recovery, deploy new applications and services, and handle increasingly large data volumes.

• How the Cloud democratises and complicates disaster recovery

  By Jeff Vance | 12 April, 2012 10:56

  Cloud computing is slowly upending the disaster recovery market. Only a few years ago, disaster recovery meant one of two things: For large organisations, it necessitated huge capital investments; for the mid-market on down, it meant backing up only the most important data to tape and shuffling it off to a secure location.

• 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.

• Dell buys AppAssure for software backup

  By Chris Kanaracus | 25 February, 2012 01:18

  Dell said Friday it has purchased backup software vendor AppAssure, in the first of an expected run of acquisitions following Dell's appointment of former CA CEO John Swainson as head of a new software division.

• 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.

• Aussie firms lack disaster plans for IT

  By AAP | 18 January, 2012 10:04

  Many Australian businesses have no plan for how they will start work again following a disaster, says flexible workspace provider Regus.

• Six reasons small businesses need virtualization

  By Paul Mah | 12 January, 2012 03:24

  Server virtualization has been around for more than 10 years and while issues such as storage and I/O bottlenecks can still rear their head, the multi-faceted advantages offered by virtualization are real and attainable even if you run a small business—and since your competitors may not have discovered the benefits of the technology yet you may gain a significant competitive advantage.