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  • US government collects Verizon customers' phone metadata ... So what?

    A top secret NSA program to collect ALL Verizon customers' call data isn't at all surprising

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 08 June 13 01:12

  • Seagate's Central hits a home run in the NAS game

    Shaw reviews the Seagate Central network-attached hard drive.

    Written by Keith Shaw • 01 May 13 20:57

  • Sizing your disk backup and deduplication system to avoid future missteps

    Correctly sizing a disk backup with deduplication to meet your current and future needs is an important part of your data protection strategy. If you ask the right questions upfront and analyze each aspect of your environment that impacts backup requirements, you can avoid the consequences of buying an undersize system that quickly exceeds capacity.

    Written by Bill Andrews • 26 April 13 20:34

  • iOS VPNs and portable storage for Apple devices

    First up, serious networking stuff concerning Apple and how iOS supports VPNs and how it won't in future.

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 10 April 13 16:12

  • Big Data the security answer?

    The recent RSA conference in San Francisco was awash in talk of big data, but it was clear there was some disagreement about what people mean by big data and some outright skepticism about it being the answer.

    Written by John Dix • 11 March 13 11:23

  • LinkedIn open sources its database change capture system

    OK, lots of interesting stuff for you this week. First up, LinkedIn has open sourced a system called Databus, a real-time database change capture system that provides a "timeline-consistent stream of change capture events ... grouped in transactions, in source commit order."

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 27 Feb. 13 15:25

  • Data backup should never be Plan B

    Data is more important to businesses today than it has ever been, doing everything from revealing trends in customer behavior to comparing sales performance across business units and regions. Comprehensive data collection provides the who, what, when and how associated with almost all organizational activity. This information is incredibly valuable to executives because it plays a critical role in strategic business decisions. As such, all businesses - big and small - must have a data backup strategy in place to protect against data loss.

    Written by Mark Lafferty, Director, Systems Solutions, Servers and Storage, CDW • 25 Feb. 13 12:00

  • Opinion: Predicting the tech future

    For my recent column of predictions for 2013 I polled a huge number of IT people to see what they are expecting, and ended up getting more than 400 responses.

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 15 Feb. 13 23:19

  • WD ups its streaming TV game with WD TV Play

    Shaw reviews Western Digital's WD TV Play, by Western Digital.

    Written by Keith Shaw • 12 Feb. 13 14:13

  • Review: Seagate Wireless Plus

    The scoop: Wireless Plus mobile storage, by Seagate, about $200 (1TB capacity)

    Written by Keith Shaw • 16 Jan. 13 21:56

  • Bart Perkins: After Superstorm Sandy, an opportunity to be better prepared

    The whole point of an information systems contingency plan is to be prepared before catastrophe strikes. Unfortunately, we're all adept at postponing planning.

    Written by Bart Perkins • 14 Jan. 13 11:04

  • The season for quantifying enterprise happiness

    Hitachi has a system that can analyze how happy your organization is and maybe even re-engineer it to make it happier!

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 03 Dec. 12 06:03

  • Review: G-Connect wireless storage for iPad

    Shaw reviews G-Connect wireless storage for iPad, by G-Technology by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.

    Written by Keith Shaw • 17 July 12 20:26
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    Preston Gralla: June 2012: The month the cloud got real

    Microsoft, Apple and Google have long seen that their future is in the cloud. Now they see their present there as well.

    Written by Preston Gralla • 16 July 12 10:10

  • Security Manager's Journal: Information rights management: Magic bullet or dud?

    Our manager seeks a way to protect information on a network whose perimeter is blurring in the age of SaaS.

    Written by J.F. Rice • 11 July 12 18:44

  • Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: The perils of BYOD

    Im not talking about the hassle for IT departments when people bring in their own devices. I mean the perils to the people doing the bringing.

    Written by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols • 10 July 12 12:51

  • Kenneth van Wyk: The iPhone at 5: Keeping it secure

    Some tips for good iOS hygiene. Insider (registration required)

    Written by Kenneth van Wyk • 09 July 12 13:42

  • Trying to Rip DVDs

    In this column two weeks ago I mentioned that a friend on a mail list had asked, "What do people use to rip a DVD to their hard drive so they can, for example, watch it on a laptop or a tablet? This was something I'd assumed would come up in a Google search, but I had a surprisingly hard time finding a solution."

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 27 June 12 18:48

  • Should cloud contracts cover client responsibilities?

    The main focus of a cloud computing contract is on vendor responsibilities, but it's appropriate to consider what the client remains responsible for.

    Written by Thomas J. Trappler • 26 June 12 12:18

  • Long live SOA in the cloud era

    You might not hear much about SOA anymore, but its imperative to make 'everything a service' is more relevant than ever

    Written by Andrew Oliver • 21 June 12 10:20
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