Stories by: Johanna Ambrosio

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Multiple short outages can add up to major problems 13 May, 2008 12:14

Corporate executives have long created IT plans to cope with major disasters, but now they're increasingly taking steps to prevent the brief shutdowns that can cost companies hundreds of thousands of dollars or more in their own right.
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Microsoft releases Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing 05 February, 2008 07:08

Almost five years in the making, Microsoft's newest server operating system has hit its next milestone: Development is complete, and it's been released to manufacturing.
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Some firms deploying virtual machines on the sly 21 September, 2007 08:29

The promise of virtualization technology has convinced some companies to require that most new applications be run immediately on virtual machines.
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EMC opening up a bit 15 October, 2003 10:03

There are some encouraging signs that EMC is playing nice with others. Although the vendor has rightly gotten a reputation for eschewing some independent initiatives in favor of its own products and services, there are signs that this attitude may be changing.
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BAM goes your storage needs 24 September, 2003 09:31

There's a new acronym on the horizon, and if it comes to pass it will wreak havoc on your storage requirements.
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Mitigating SAN security risks 10 September, 2003 09:27

The world of SAN security is complex, but there are some emerging ideas about how to approach the issue.
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Solving backup woes? 13 August, 2003 09:02

The Enhanced Backup Solutions Initiative (EBSI) is a group of vendors that's been quietly trying to figure out how best to do backup on a large scale. They're proposing an interesting mix of tape and disk that walks a middle ground between the two worlds in terms of performance and cost.
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Microsoft releases iSCSI drivers 23 July, 2003 10:27

Microsoft's recent release of iSCSI drivers for its operating systems will no doubt fuel mass market acceptance of the newly minted standard.
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Self-managing storage 25 June, 2003 09:37

If analysts are right, some vendors' smart storage systems are ready enough for prime time to start investigating them.
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Diligence rewarded 19 May, 2003 11:14

Their methods may vary, but IT executives who calculate return on investment before launching major technology projects say they reap benefits that make doing the maths worthwhile.
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ROI in a weird new world 23 April, 2003 10:19

Phil Goodwin, research director for the Meta Group, recently proposed some better ways of making a financial case for new storage systems than the old tried-and-true return on investment (ROI) calculations. He suggests using mean time to data recovery, data availability statistics, and the amount of storage managed per administrator