August 31, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Any organization interested in securing data should take seriously the warning from Panda Security that one little device could be the sharpest tool in cyberthieves’ arsenal.
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Tags: flash drives, malware, Panda Security, study, worms
January 26, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
That much-touted marketing tool called “buzz” doesn’t seem to have helped cloud providers get businesses to adopt the technology as their storage solution.
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Tags: adoption, cloud computing, Forrester Research, storage
December 7, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Everybody’s talking about the Cloud, wishing they could be in the Cloud, but scared to venture to the Cloud. Except Apple, which appears to have moved to the computing stratosphere in a big way.
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Tags: acuqisition, Apple, cloud computing, Lala, music, streaming
November 12, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Keeping servers from overheating means a lot to data center admins, but the folks at Google have some lessons in how cool they should be that may sound counter-intuitive to folks who manage server arrays.
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Tags: fail, Google, research, server, temperature
October 20, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Things could get worse for the IT industry, but it’s tough to imagine how.
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Tags: Gartner, Hardware, IT spending, servers
July 14, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
The folks at Microsoft have unveiled the pricing plans for a new cloud computing scheme, and it’s fair to say the business model is pretty much up in the air.
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Tags: Azure, cloud computing, lauinch, Microsoft, platform, pricing
May 29, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
As oil prices begin to inch up once again –- and the summer cooling season starts to heat up –- organizations may want to take another look at their “green options” for data center management.
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Tags: Energy Star rating system, Environmental Protection Agency, Forrester Research Inc., oil prices
April 21, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Despite what you’ve probably heard about IT spending freezes, not every new project is
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Tags: budgets, IT spending, projects, Robert Half Technology
April 13, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck

Yes, the economy’s lousy and companies are cutting back, but there’s one area of IT that doesn’t seem to be feeling the pinch:
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Tags: budgets, cloud computing, data center, Ditital Realty Trust, IT, spending, the Cloud
April 7, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Case study: It came time for us to upgrade our data storage. Our old direct-attached system just wasn’t cutting it anymore.
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Tags: data storage, iSCSI SAN, network, performance