10 Things to Consider When Developing a File Classification Strategy

Data Management 

By Amir Jaibaji

One of the ways large organizations are beginning to combat the ever-growing mountain of unstructured data is by leveraging file classification technology to understand wha...

Deduplication 2.0 – Using the Right Tool for the Right Job

Deduplication

By Marc Crespi

Deduplication may be one of the hottest buzz words in the IT industry today.  As prevalent a topic as it is, great confusion exists about what it is and what it does.&nbs...

Integrated SAS with Next-Generation RAID

Next Generation RAID  

Before long, RAID solutions will combine the dependability of today’s hardware solutions with the high performance of software solutions running on the industry’s latest server p...

Top 10 Backup Mistakes in Virtual Environment

Storage Virtualization

By Dave Elliot

By now, most IT pros are neck deep in virtualization.  Virtualization has been gaining steam steadily over the past few years.  In fact, according to one survey, 95 per...

Storage and Security: Ever the Twain Shall Meet?

Storage Security

By James Damoulakis

Since the early days of storage-based networking, experts have sounded warnings about the need for greater cooperation between the storage and security groups within an organizati...

Protecting Your Data, One Copy (Print, Scan, Fax…) At a Time

Data Security

By Larry Kovnat

Recent news coverage has spurred a renewed interest in copier security, how multifunction printers (MFPs) process, store and shield sensitive data and what IT professionals can do ...

Desktop and Notebook Drives Not For the Enterprise - Part II

Hard Disk Drives

By Tom McDorman

Read Part I of this article here .

Enterprise Drive Design Differentiation

There are a substantial number of other features used in enterprise drives that do not exist in desk...

LTO-5 and LTFS: Shaking the Pillars of Heaven

Editorial

By Mark Ferelli

Throughout the history of computer storage, game-changing innovation has spelled the difference between progress and stagnation.  The best processing and connectivity in the world...

Stored-Data Encryption: Hardware or Software?

By Dr. Michael Willett

Joe had just negotiated the contract between his health care management services company and a big hospital chain. He was on his way home. He set down his briefcase and laptop to make an excited cal...

Desktop and Notebook Drives Not For the Enterprise

Hard Disk Drives

By Tom McDorman

It is important to educate and bring clarity to the value of enterprise SATA drives in the commercial, industrial, and business critical market segments.  All too frequentl...

Tape: Protecting Data to the Final [fron]Tier

Tape Evangelism 

By Ryan Duffy

Despite the increasing use of disk for backup and data protection, tape is still being used as the final storage tier. The LTO Program recently released the findings of their...

Enter the Cloud: Recovery as a Service

Disaster Recovery

By Joshua Geist

Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) are terms that have been in common use for well over a decade, and reflect the business world’s acknowledgment that data m...