Category: News

Voice of Experience: The Backup Planner

Gary JohnsonCarlson CompaniesArchitectural ConsultantMinneapolis, Minn.www.carlson.com Manager’s Profile: Backup systems architect for the main data center facility of $6.7 billion travel and hospitality company, whose brands

StorageTek: Premium Choice

StorageTek has kept up a healthy lead in the category it invented in 1987 (customers started calling those first automated libraries “tape silos”), and has

How Tape Shapes Up

Tape remains the leader of the backup pack, delivering more bytes for the storage buck than even the lowest-cost disk drives. There’s something about tape

ADIC: A Smaller Footprint

If you’re just talking market share, ADIC is no more than, say, Neptune to StorageTek’s Jupiter: ADIC generates about one-third the tape library revenue as

Quantum: Losing a Step

Better known for tape drive technologies than libraries, Quantum has been eliciting fewer warm fuzzies lately. Financially, its earnings have been hurt by falling tape

December 2003 Online Extras

24/7 SERVICES Certified Returns? Tool: The Benefits of Software Certification This Microsoft Excel calculatorprovides a return on investment estimate for any kind of software-process improvement.

Gotcha! Corporate Weblogs

The Dean presidential campaign has demonstrated how effective weblogs can be for communicating quickly and directly with an audience and for creating online communities of

Six Apart: Love at First Blog

In 2001, Mena Trott couldn’t find any software she liked to use for her online journal. She complained to her husband, Ben, that the available

Ascential Software: Fear Factor

You couldn’t blame customers of Vality Technology for worrying when the company was bought for $92 million by Ascential Software in 2002. Many had invested