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The idea of running some of your desktops inside a secure data center has a lot of appeal, but the costs for building the right infrastructure can consume the savings that VDI promises to generate. Here are some guidelines for dealing with these challenges.

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ROEL Construction implemented Virtualization and storage solutions that improved data center operations and would scale to meet its future needs, while providing the eco-friendly and cost-saving benefits of reduced power and energy consumption.
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Gulfport Municipal Court streamlined its infrastructure after Hurricane Katrina destroyed numerous court documents, investing in a digital imaging solution and storing data in multiple sites to prevent such a disastrous loss from ever happening again.
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Our research shows 10 business and technology trends that will help define the IT landscape in 2010.
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The world's largest IT company is also one of the most interesting and influential. HP's impact goes well beyond technology; in many ways, it is the prototypical high-tech company and the fountainhead of Silicon Valley culture.
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CA recently polled 100 technology executives at companies that use IBM System z mainframes. They reported that their loyalty to mainframe technology stems from its ability to meet requirements for reliability, resilience, security, management, and compliance. See also: The Mainframe Career Option.
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How can you keep your virtualized storage area network properly maintained? Try following these best practices.
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Some highlights from the Association of Information and Image Management (AIIM) report, “E-mail Management: The good, the bad and the ugly.” The report analyzed a survey conducted earlier in the spring on e-mail management practices and beliefs.
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IT managers will have to decide whether to adopt storage virtualization or NAS clusters.
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A survey suggests IT executives may not have their finger on the pulse of their data-center staffs during this downturn -- but everyone’s on board with the need for efficiency and tech-driven business growth.
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The job market is brutal, but some IT specializations remain in high demand. Many of the hottest roles and skills address issues specific to survival, such as productivity, efficiency and process improvement. Most relevant are those experts who can use technology to help drive profit.
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Energy conservation, improved performance and reduced cooling costs are just a few of the benefits of virtualization and consolidation.
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The key is to understand what needs protection and to find out what’s missing from your existing security strategies and solutions.
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To truly become efficient, storage managers are addressing the nagging problem of duplicated data that eats up space in the storage and backup infrastructure. Here are some of the major players in the storage arena offering some form of single-instance storage, deduplication and even records-matching to get rid of those extra bytes and make way for new data.
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Once again, Dell and Hewlett-Packard fought a tight race to the top of our 2008 Vendor Value rankings for hardware vendors.

 
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The consortium of Hollywood studios, retailers, service providers, and consumer electronics and information technology companies, called the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, or DECE, is working on a "uniform digital media experience" but won't announce details until the Consumer Electronics Show. The consortium said it will call for interoperability of devices and websites, and usage rules that allow consumers to copy content onto household playback devices and to burn their content to physical media.
Google used to store such data for 18 months, but has now trimmed that duration to nine months. Until a year-and-a-half ago, Google had kept personally identifiable information about its Web users on company computers for an indefinite amount of time, according to a Microsoft executive.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced a curved aluminum and glass nano -- the best-selling iPod -- for $149 with 8 gigabytes of storage, $50 less than the predecessor model, and a 16-gigabyte version for $199, with up to 24 hours of music playback or four hours of video. He also rolled out a thinner, $229 version of the Internet-connecting iPod touch with rounded edges and 8 gigabytes of storage.
IBM is announcing more then 30 new or upgraded products or services that are the result of a $2 billion investment over the last three years involving thousands of IBM researchers and eight acquisitions of data storage start-ups. Even as the economy slows and businesses move to slash spending on computers and network gear, sales of storage will continue to spiral -- at least until someone invents a way for companies to stop collecting so much data, analysts say.
IT manager: Hurricane, tropical storm, and natural disaster season is here. Learn how to have a disaster recovery plan for business continuity with the appropriate storage and backup strategies. Disaster recovery should be looked at not just in terms of business continuity and applications availability, but also for compliance reasons.
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    IT managers will have to decide whether to adopt storage virtualization or NAS clusters.
    Before you choose a SaaS, in the cloud hosted service or other online backup technology to protect and store your backup data, be sure to ask these key data storage questions: How much data will be stored? How fast do you need the data up and running? What makes up the data repositories? What kinds of data compression techniques will be used?
    As vendors vie for dominance, enterprises must remind IT staffers who they really work for—the user.

     

     
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