Cloud Computing Backup? Five Key Questions

Cloud Computing

By Eran Farajun

The quick evolution and maturity of cloud storage providers creates a new opportunity for managed service providers to offer cloud backup services. Backup to the cloud can provide a compelli...

Information Inventory for Disaster Recovery: Cases In Point

By David Smith and Scott Laman
In an instant -- a fire, flood or hurricane can erase years of business operations. Most companies have thought about how they would manage in the event of a disaster; and some have ...

News Analysis: Lessons Learned from Microsoft/T-Mobile’s Smartphone Data Loss

Tape Evangelism

by Mark Ferelli

How often do data center managers need to be reminded of how important backing up data is?  The history of IT shows the data loss results due to fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane, terr...

Trusted Computing Group Sets New Endpoint Security Standard

By Lisa Lorenzin

Trusted Computing Group Sets New Endpoint Security Standard

A primary goal of enterprise security is to protect the network environment from unwanted intruders, including unauthorized devices seeking...

Meet SLA Goals for Availability in Microsoft Exchange

By Michael Bilancieri

Recent reports show that the average employee checks email once every 15 minutes, with power users checking email up to...

Mark Ferelli Retained as CTR/CTN Editor in Chief

Everything Old is New Again

Veteran readers of CTR: greetings. New readers of CTR: greetings to you, too. After a five year sojourn, WestWorld has retained me to take on the editorial management of Computer Technolo...

Virtualization and the Data Protection Connection

By Peter Eicher

Long overdue, IT infrastructure consolidation has finally taken a foothold. However, it is a sizable undertaking and often requires considerable redesign of the data center. This redesign can be seve...

Why Should Every IT Department Consider Multiple Hypervisor Vendors in Server Virtualization?

The mere mention of the phrase ‘multiple server virtualization hypervisors’ can send many administrators into a panic frenzy. The daunting complexity of such an undertaking combined with the sheer overhead required t...

Email High Availability and Disaster Recovery

A Critical Business Communications Lifeline for SMBs

For many businesses and organizations today, email has become the primary communication vehicle for seeking or disseminating information either internally or externally...

Understanding the Difference between the Burst and Sustained Performance of Flash Solid State Disks

More frequently IT departments are looking at Flash as an efficient and cost-effective method of increasing transaction rates and supporting more concurrent users without having to add servers or alter their applications...

Can Windows 7 Help You Prepare for Litigation? Advances in E-Discovery Readiness

Upgrades and system changes allow IT departments to streamline efficiency and gain functionality for companies of all sizes, but many are considering an additional factor when making the change to Windows 7: litigation p...

Real-Time Access to Disparate Information -- an Idea Whose Time Has Come

Until recently, many organizations were able to conduct day-to-day operations without providing their employees with real-time visibility into data ensconced in various silos. However, there are a number of urgent busine...