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Digital storage media are critical for the succesful archival of audio visual assets ion the future, yet for many archives they present an entirely new set of problems. Key amongst these is a radical change in the standards of formats, the tools available to manage their quality, and the ways in which they may fail over time.
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Information about the people behind the PrestoSpace SAM website.
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This paper is intended to be a resource for those who are making a policy case for digital archives, for digitisation programmes or for projects designed to exploit the corresponding digital content. It sets out, in a schematic way, arguments that have been rehearsed in recent years to support the case for more investment in these areas, covering the nature of the case to be made, the concepts of market failure, contingent valuation, public value and the internal business case. Summaries are given of the main policy developments in the area at an EU level and of some prominent case studies. A core theme throughout the paper is the need to articulate a more specific (and preferably quantitative) justification for investment in Digital Archives.
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This paper describes ongoing research into the archiving of as-transmitted interactive content.
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The development of data storage technology has been heavily influenced by the sheer size of the consumer electronic entertainment and information products market. The technology trends described have also been leveraged by important technical and market developments that have taken place in the last two years. Part II describes the technology, current product capabilities, performance and near- term expansion projections through the year 2010 for all major data storage equipment.
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This report is intended to be of use to any digital repository that is looking at long-term archival storage issues, especially on a large scale.
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STAG questionnaire for "corporate archives" -- audiovisual collections inside general businesses, not broadcast archives.
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News Items (147)
The Momentus 5400.2 is Seagate's second generation 5400RPM 2.5-inch hard disk drive for the mobile market. If you're itching to upgrade your notebook's drive to something with a larger capacity, then you'll need to know how it compares with its earlier sibling.
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The new Gigabyte i-RAM is a device that uses DDR memory for storage while emulating itself as a SATA hard disk drive. Using up to 4GB of DDR400 memory, this card can boast unimaginable access speeds. Just how fast is this device as compared to WD's Raptor? Find out here.
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The Thecus N4100 is a small and easy-to-use network storage appliance that supports four SATA hard disk drives. It supports either RAID 0, 1, 5 or JBOD configurations and will share across most major operating systems including Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Find out more in this review.
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The new ExcelStor GStor Plus hard disk drive may look like just another storage product on the retail shelves, but it comes with encryption, password protection and instant backup rollback features. Find out what this innovative drive can do for you at home and at the office.
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Excelstor's latest external storage drive is more than just a portable hard drive. The GStor Secure Mobile Storage device comes with hardware-level encryption that secures your data from unauthorized access, so much so that the drive is rendered unusable without the proper authentication.
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Petabyte tamer
SGI has pumped out a fresh set of storage gear aimed at customers that would like a helping hand setting up large-scale NAS (network attached storage) systems.…
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Hierarchical high risk
CA has moved to fix a trio of high risk security holes in its popular BrightStor Hierarchical Storage Manager software.…
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Fowl man necked by albatross
Sun Microsystems will fold its long-wobbling storage unit into its server unit, forming a single entity dedicated to building hardware that benefits man - or at least Sun's bottom line.…
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GPFS - it's about policy
IBM on Friday is releasing a new version of its General Parallel File System (GPFS) for serious data crunchers.…
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Mozy Osbourne
Storage giant EMC branched further into the security market with the acquisition of on-line backup firm Berkeley Data Systems. Financial terms of the deal, officially announced Thursday, were undisclosed but a suggested price tag of $76m was cited when rumors of the pending union first surfaced a fortnight ago.…
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Trying to eliminate IP redundancy?
Still fresh from acquiring a patent agreement from Data Domain by threatening legal action, Quantum is turning its eyes to another rival in the de-duplication market.…
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And why not?
It's too much to demand that any vendor try and make RAID storage exciting. Our hats, however, go off to Panasas for trying.…
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Paves way for 4TB desktop drives, apparently
Hitachi has developed a hard drive read/write head that's half the size of the units found in today's top-of-the-line HDDs - a crucial step, it claimed, to delivering a 4TB desktop drive, albeit not until 2009 at the earliest.…
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Avamar and RecoverPoint find a daddy
SNW EMC is teaching NetWorker, its long-in-tooth flagship backup and recovery application some new tricks in time for Storage Networking World in Texas.…
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Adds McDataness to 48000 Director
SNW Several storage vendors plan to dive into 8 Gbit/s Fibre Channel gear in 2008, but it looks like Brocade will be first in the pool.…
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Before they're in the red
SNW Fingernail biting over the cost of storage power and cooling hasn't reached the epoch haunting the server space, but it's headed that way.…
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No, that's not Friends of the Church of England
SNW QLogic is giving a preview of its latest gear at Storage Networking World in Dallas, including the claimed first complete Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) converged network.…
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What could possibly go wrong this quarter?
Seagate surprised itself in the last quarter by shipping 47 million disk drives, more than it had actually planned for.…
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To complement its *other* green coalition
SNW Trade organization SNIA, the Storage Networking Industry Association, has formed yet another eco-cause group.…
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Disk caddies cheaper than tape cartridges, claims Idealstor
There's always something a little off-beat around the edges of these shows, and this time it was a small company, called Idealstor, pushing an ejectable hard disk called Teralyte as a replacement for tape backup.…
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Eternus line hits lower limits
SNW Fujitsu Computer Systems is shrinking their Fibre Channel storage systems to woo the all-elusive SMB market. The de-bigulation was announced at Storage Networking World in Dallas.…
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iStor claims speed record for single-chip iSCSI controller
An iSCSI developer said it has bucked the trend towards using standard servers to power storage appliances, instead using specialist chips that it designed itself.…
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640GB-per-platter drives now possible
Western Digital has claimed to have created the world's highest density hard drive platter, a unit that packs in 520Gb per inch squared - more than double the highest density products on the market today.…
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Compressed thinking
The B-eye Network recently conducted a survey on behalf of Dataupia. which asked, among other things, companies whether they would consider a "rip and replace" approach to solving whatever data warehousing problems they might have. Seventy-five per cent of respondents said no.…
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DS8000, DS4000, DS3000, TS2240, TS7520 please come to the red courtesy phone
IBM is releasing details on a lot of storage stuff today. We mean a lot.…
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Stockpiles ammunition against EMC and Symantec
IBM is bulking up its storage software division by buying privately held storage resource management firm, Novus Consulting Group (NovusCG). Financial terms were not disclosed.…
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77 per cent profit boost
EMC saw its stock price leap more than eight per cent today, thanks in part to its 86 per cent stake in the hotter-than-hot virtualization outfit, VMware.…
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As Sandisk throws lawsuits round like confetti
Sun has issued a counter-lawsuit against Network Appliance (NetApp) which last month sued the Java overlords alleging it had violated seven of its patents.…
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Six patents topped with a slice of avocado
Sun Microsystems has spanked Network Appliance with another lawsuit, as relations between the two vendor continue to deteriorate at speed.…
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Ditches Fibre for price point
NetApp is launching a smaller iSCSI storage box for its StoreVault line.…
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'Critical' flaw with China-made HDDs?
Updated Data recovery company Retrodata has challenged Apple to come clean about what it claims is a "critical manufacturing flaw" affecting some hard drives used in MacBook laptops and desktops like the Mac Mini - an issue that could result in data loss.…
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When is a Gig not a Gig?
Any punters who bought a Seagate hard drive in the US between 22 March 2001 and 26 September 2007 could be entitled to a five per cent discount on future Seagate products or free backup software.…
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Vulcan approved, 7824.7 to one
3Par is releasing new software today for dividing an InServ array into separate virtual devices.…
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Joins the DLP jamboree
Software security vendor Symantec is to snap up data loss prevention (DLP) firm Vontu for $350m in a combined cash and options deal.…
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With partnerships like this, who needs competition?
Analysis On Monday, Dell said it will acquire iSCSI storage vendor EqualLogic for $1.4bn. That's no small chunk of change even for a company with Dell's deep pockets. And the price is even more significant when you consider Dell's historic aversions to meaty acquisitions.…
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Entry-level NAS storage SS4200x
Intel is making a second charge at home and small-business storage with a new box for distributors, resellers and channel partners to re-brand.…
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Swap meet for Compaq and DEC exes
Seagate is selling its Advanced Storage Architecture (ASA) research and development group to SAN vendor Xiotech in a rather secretive deal.…
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Ghost in the machine
Confirmation that a Maxtor hard disk drive was infected with a Trojan by a manufacturing sub-contractor in China is spooking Taiwanese authorities, one of the countries where examples of the infected kit have begun to appear.…
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Nexis 9000 combines InfiniBand and RDMA storage
SGI is launching an InfiniBand-based RDMA storage device to its freshly announced Nexis family of NAS storage systems.…
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Altima 4Gb/s FC SSD not for storage toddlers
Storage vendors have been sieging the large business market with solid state drive offerings for years — but cost and capacity restrictions have mostly kept them at the gate. Only recently has the technology advanced enough to to make SSD gear a plausible replacement for traditional disk storage.…
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Fishworks eyed as cure to disk stank
SC07 Sun's hardware chief John "I don't comment on unannounced products" Fowler has storage on the brain.…
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Embiggen your back-end
Scientifically speaking, storage vendor Isilon systems is hugifying its clustered NAS lineup. The storage firm is expanding its modular storage pool family by fitting 1TB drives into a new pair of nodes, boasting 250TB max capacity in a single rack.…
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Breaks out in Windows file-sharing rashes
Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes...…
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Backdating 2: Electric Boogaloo
The trial of the second former Brocade executive charged with stock option backdating opened today in San Francisco with prosecutors painting Stephanie Jensen as a key enforcer of the data storage equipment maker's accounting irregularities.…
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Quadruples capacity, births two boxes
Hitachi Data Systems is aiming its high-end NAS at the mid-market, squeezing out two new offerings to appeal to little guys.…
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Long time coming
Iron Mountain announced today that it has begun providing long-awaited data escrow services to ICANN and its panoply of approved registrars. Ever since the RegisterFly debacle exposed ICANN’s failure to account properly for the data escrow requirements of its Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), data escrow has been at or near the top of the ICANN agenda.…
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Another into the fray
Memory maker Micron is leaping into the widening world of NAND flash-based solid state disks. The shiny new RealSSD brand comprises three products: SATA drives for desktops and laptops, embedded USB drives and module storage for servers.…
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Outside firm performs seven-level wipe
A US official overseeing a probe of former Bush aide Karl Rove has been called on the carpet after it was discovered he hired a private computer-help company to erase all the hard drives belonging to him and two deputies.…
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MetaLinks assimilated for undisclosed sum
Seagate plans to buy the digital document search firm MetaLincs for an undisclosed sum.…
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Because you are a dirty criminal scumbag
Western Digital's 1TB My Book World Edition external hard drive has been crippled by DRM for your safety.…
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IBM, Intel, AMD - all there
Year in review Our most recent orbit around the sun has been a busy one for the world of servers, chips and storage.…
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Uhler, Uhler, Uhler
AMD has hired former MIPS CTO Mike Uhler to spearhead efforts around co-processors.…
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10TB of DRAM? Why not?
AMD and Violin Memory have ignited a love affair around Hypertransport that should result in what the industry technically refers to as huge DRAM appliances being connected to Opteron-based servers.…
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ESX Server and Invista get tuned
EMC and wealthy chum VMware celebrated the glories of virtualization together this week. We'll start with Vmware, since it's the virtualization darling but do promise that EMC has some new virtual tweaks of its own to flog.…
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The panic that wasn't
Seven years ago, The Register broke what became the biggest DRM story of all time. It described a plot that took place in obscure committee rooms that was quite cunning in its insidiousness. Had it succeeded and been implemented, it would have seen the demise of the open personal computer platform - without anyone realising it. For the first time, many of us became fully aware of the consequences of a locked-down PC.…
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IBM and Yahoo issued a new version of their free enterprise search product on Tuesday, just weeks after rival Microsoft announced a competing product.
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Organizations that experience data breaches are paying more than ever to recover from the incidents and retain customers once the events become public knowledge, according to a new research report.
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Micron Technology plunged headfirst into the nascent solid state drive marketplace Wednesday with the unveiling of its RealSSD family of storage devices.
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In IT, change is the only constant, as hardware and software is updated almost continuously. Companies that take business continuity seriously protect themselves by creating a recovery site to run vital business processes during an emergency.
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Sun Microsystems announced a pair of release dates for xVM Ops Center 1.0, its new virtualization management console.
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The capacity of disk storage systems shipped worldwide in the third quarter grew by nearly 50 percent from a year earlier, and EMC maintained its lead in most types of disk storage systems, research company IDC reported Thursday.
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Is there a worse time to start thinking of what to put in next year?s storage budget than just before the holidays? Probably not <grin>, but setting aside the nuts and bolts of storage now so that you can focus on the legal implications of next year?s purchases will be the best present you can give yourself before the new year.
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Concerned about piracy of multimedia files, Western Digital has disallowed the sharing of multimedia files on its 1TB network-attached storage drive, the WD My Book World Edition.
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Hewlett-Packard's BI (business intelligence) services business saw its customer base grow 50 percent in fiscal 2007, the company said this week, while also trumpeting the success of its Neoview data warehousing appliance.
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Toshiba will begin manufacturing flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) for laptops early next year, which the company said will offer faster boot times and lower power consumption than hard disk drives.
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Are standards something we should really care about?
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Only when the pain and cost of the status quo becomes too great to bear will users start to make some noise.
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Storage standards don’t top the list of customer needs.
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The need to build resilient low-cost infrastructure for hosting e-mail archives is growing fast.
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SRM is probably the most important investment that storage managers can make, but it’s riddled with problems.
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How much would you spend for 2 TB?
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Though StorHouse is principally a data warehousing system, its stronger value may be as a database archiving solution.
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Archiving isn’t rocket science, but it can be a challenge for even rocket scientists to do well.
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Real archiving is more challenging to set up and manage over time than simply backing up data.
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Can non-native archive management software improve the performance of the e-mail server by automatically archiving messages without user intervention?
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The move will likely have mixed impact on most CA customers, although mainframe shops should expect some benefits
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As with everything else in IT, performance is a key consideration when selecting a backup solution. Finding a reliable measure, however, is problematic.
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What every storage admin must ask: what must we save and where shall we save it?
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Is the obvious so difficult to understand? Obviously, yes.
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Our storage analyst, Jon Toigo, begins a series on data security issues and solutions.
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Storage security needs a more systemic view to succeed.
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One of the big puzzles of storage security is how best, architecturally speaking, to deploy the technology. BitArmor answers our questions.
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Placing storage security in the network is another option for locking down your data
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The best place for tape-based data encryption may well be on the media itself, but until key management issues are worked out, the strategy binds you to a particular vendor’s key management system for the foreseeable future. Our storage analyst, Jon Toigo, takes a closer look.
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Seagate’s announcement of Momentus drives with DriveTrust technology holds promise for enabling IT to secure data at rest
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One company offers a way to secure data when different classes of data have different security requirements.
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Confusing encryption with data storage security can be dangerous to your storage protection strategy.
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A greater use of the "delete" key may be the greenest data strategy of all.
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Symantec Veritas CommandCentral is building a strong infrastructure monitoring and management approach that is worth a look.
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It should come as no surprise that new companies have begun to carve out a part of the storage market for themselves.
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Click here to see what Gartner, Network World and other experts say about the new data center.
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Isilon last week bolstered its clustered storage environment with the release of two products that allow its storage systems to scale to as much as 1.6PB of capacity in a single file system and single volume.
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Index Engines last week announced one of the first systems for automating the e-discovery process of data from offline tape. The company's eDiscovery Edition of its Tape Engine appliance automatically performs tape data sorting and object extraction and eliminates the restoration of tapes before e-discovery can begin.
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According to Stephen Whetstone, a former litigation partner at the Boston-based Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault, many companies have lagged behind in implementing plans to comply with the recently-amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) that mandate how companies must preserve and share their electronic records for litigation purposes.
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BlueArc is moving into the midrange storage market with the introduction of its Titan 1100 storage array. It joins the company's larger Titan 2100, 2200 and 2500 arrays. Like those arrays, the Titan 1100 uses the same operating system and has the same features but costs 25% less than the 2100.
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Anyone responsible for managing a data center understands the increasing importance of power efficiency. This is especially the case in data centers where consolidation and higher-density equipment has packed more and more devices into less floor space.
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This week marks the first anniversary of changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), which mandates the speedy recovery of electronically stored information. In the intervening year, oodles of vendors have tweaked their archiving products to meet the requirements of the FRCP, adding search and rapid retrieval capability, as well as the ability to audit operations.
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Analysts claim Microsoft SharePoint is spreading “virally†throughout enterprises, catching IT departments off guard and introducing risks related to uncontrolled content and regulatory compliance.
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From pitch-by-pitch accounts of games to streaming audio and video -- plus news, schedules, statistics and more -- MLB Advanced Media has baseball covered. Strategic use of virtualization technology promises to smooth the company's shift to a new data center in Chicago in time for the 2008 season.
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I thought of building a RAID system. The Yellow Box gives 2 TB but I could build a box with 2.8 TB for less money. The main feature I would like is to be able to turn on the box for a short time (to back, daily or weekly) saving power and to increasing drive longevity. It would be ideal if the box could turn itself on and off with a schedule. I have built computers before so the hardware is not too intimidating. The problem is I don't know Linux at all, just Windows.
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EMC today unveiled the first major upgrade to its storage virtualization technology since releasing the product in mid-2005, adding full interoperability with VMware.
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At its customer conference, BEA Systems announces multiple new products and partnerships along with a long-term strategy to better integrate back-end SOA and front-end Web 2.0.
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Virtual chip architectures, virtual I/O -- what's the limit?
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The MD3000i iSCSI SAN offers a low cost entry for SMEs seeking to migrate away from direct-attached storage.
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The company was co-founded by former XenSource guru Moshe Bar and former Cisco director of engineering Rami Tamir.
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The Release Candidate of Windows Server 2008 will include the beta code for Microsoft's much-anticipated virtualization technology. Is that a good idea?
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Splunk 3.0 is one of the best low-cost log analysis tools on the market.
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Do a deep dive review of your current servers to identify early candidates for virtualization, make sure everyone involved agrees on goals, and update internal policies to reflect this new world order
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Get off the one-off treadmill--today, standardization does not have to mean inflexibility.
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CEO Jonathan Schwartz combines the company's storage and server product teams to package Sun's hardware products for data center administrators.
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The xVM Server is based on the open source Xen hypervisor and includes a minimized version of Solaris.
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Vendors like HP and IBM are hoping to cash in on the interest by designing blade server systems specifically for smaller businesses.
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XenSource, which was recently acquired by Citrix, makes the open-source hypervisor XenExpress. It also licenses XenEnterprise, a feature-rich version of XenExpress that includes enhanced features such as live migration and a management console.
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The VKernel virtual appliance offers chargeback and capacity reporting for VMware environments.
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As VMware pushes the hypervisor to supplant the operating system, Microsoft is stuck playing catch-up.
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Some folks are suggesting that Comcast's sending forged TCP resets suggest the company is making some moral judgement about users accessing BitTorrent. Settle down people.
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Our reporter wraps up the days events.
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Former General Manager of EMC joins Virtual Iron with a goal: to clarify the difference between Virtual Iron and XenSource's Xen-based hypervisors.
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New server OS is sleek, fast and business-ready—even for mixed environments.
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As part of its "Big Green" initiative, IBM is offering tradable emissions credits that customers can sell to power companies.
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