Quelling Concerns About Cloud Security With a Top-notch IaaS-based System

by Adam Stern

It’s no wonder businesses moving their computing operations to the cloud are feeling a bit insecure these days. There is a considerable amount of information being disseminated about cloud security, and ...

Object Storage: Where Cloud Computing and Big Data Meet

by Tom Leyden

At the NAB 2012 show last month, the storage industry was more visible than ever, and the buzzword emerging from the event was ‘object storage.’ The term is inextricably tied to storage clouds and cert...

The Cloud: Resource or Liability?

by Olen Pepple

Cloud computing is now part of the business vernacular, a term that circulates freely amongst companies and executives alike. But cloud computing also risks becoming a meaningless expression: an overused...

Looking for Great Mobile Business Apps? They Don't Exist...Yet

by Jamie Barnett

It has become a common occurrence: Tired of juggling multiple devices, a C-suite executive approaches the company IT manager and requests access to the corporate network on a new tablet or smartphone p...

Embrace Your Data and Keep it Safe

by Margaret Dawson

No one would question the importance of network security. It has long been an IT focus and discipline about which we can become an expert and specialize in specific areas or technologies and for which...

Making the BYOD Trend Secure for Your Organization

by Reza Nabavi

They include the sales rep who’s constantly making in-person visits to clients, as well as the business development manager who calls up shared files/docs in a coffee shop. Not to mention the IT ...

Seven Essential Components for Business Continuity Plan Success

by Doug Kavanagh

Last year marked what many experts called the “Year of Disasters” as the United States set a record with 12 separate billion-dollar weather/climate incidents.

It is no wonder that weather and non-wea...

The London Olympics: An Exercise in Avoiding IT Overload

by Joop Janssen

1.8 million. That’s the number of people who have already purchased tickets to see the 10,000-plus athletes compete in this year’s summer Olympics in London. For those lucky ones, the Games represen...

Backup as a Service: Unearthing the Most Practical, Web-based DR Solutions

by Nick Mueller

Disaster recovery (DR) has been a concern for IT teams as long as businesses have relied on computers. The issue now in 2012 is that many of the techniques for delivering DR, such as tape backups, hot si...

NAS Targets Disk - and Tape

by Molly Rector

Addressing astronomical data growth and increasing accessibility demands

Over the last 10 years, “Data Growth Continues its Breakneck Pace” ¹ could be the name of a regular column in any storage p...