Recent moves by top storage vendors to add data deduplication to their product lines have not only brought those vendors in line with smaller competitors who have been offering the feature for years, but have also brought new opportunities to solution providers looking to cash in on one of the fastest-growing parts of the storage market.
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These are just some of the 80-plus junk e-mail messages, known as spam, that are pouring into John Gembecki's inbox on a daily basis since he started looking for a job in July.
Gembecki is sure that every piece of spam is a result of the resumes he put on Monster.com and other employment sites because he created a Gmail account for his job search that he doesn't use for anything else.
In the past 12 months Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has been doing some interesting work on storage lifecycle costs behind the scenes. The fruits include its ‘Storage Economics' strategy backed by a simple-to-use calculation tool so customers can see quickly where storage cost savings are likely to be made.
Was it serendipity that HDS produced such a tool and approach just as the credit crunch started to bite, or did someone see signs of the downturn early? Either way, it is exceptionally good timing.
ForeScout Technologies, a market leader in network access control (NAC) and policy management solutions for large enterprises, today announced that its CounterACT(TM) network access control (NAC) solution has been added to the United States Army Information Assurance Approved Products List (AIAAPL).
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced general availability of flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) for the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform(TM) V and VM. Innovative flash-based drive technology combined with Hitachi's world-class virtualized storage services platform is designed to provide exceptional performance of business-critical applications, with significantly improved utilization, while also reducing power and cooling consumption.
Whether it is an individual, a small organization, a mid-sized firm or an enterprise, it goes without saying that in today's circumstances none of the IT users is safe - as far as the chances of attacks on their IT systems or networks are concerned.
Leading Solutions has opened three Technology Centres costing $150,000 and powered by Intel vPro.
The new centres in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane will be located within Leading Solutions' offices and operated by their own staff.
The initiative brings together industry players including Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Toshiba, IBM and Symantec.
Symantec Corp. announces recently that a new independent study finds that small and medium businesses (SMB) rate backup as their second-highest computing priority, after defense against viruses and other malware, and ahead of issues such as reducing costs and deploying new computers. Ninety-two percent of companies have deployed some form of data backup technology, yet 50 percent of those respondents have lost data.
Most workers frightened by the prospect of layoffs are considering stealing corporate data to use in negotiating for a new job, our excellent sister site Dark Reading reports. They're angry, scared, desperate, and unsophisticated -- but you, the CIO, are cool, calm, and confident because you're prepared for such an onslaught. Right? Well -- you are prepared, aren't you?
Mountains of corporate governance regulations, multiplying numbers of web pages, and swathes of demand for keeping audio, video and still images in digital formats have made controlling storage a CIO-level issue over the last several years. However, the data flood has been good news as far as the giants in disk, tape and storage servers have been concerned, as they offer the water wings that allow companies to wade through the accumulating terabytes of information.
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