Tokenization – An Alternative to Encryption for Data Security

Encryption was a simple premise for securing data back in the seventies – the early days of the Data Encryption Standard (DES). Though DES may not have been infallible it was effective enough to be widely adopted both ...

The Cloud Computing Transition: What does it mean for you?

We are standing on the threshold of a new transition in information technology and communications; a radical departure from current practice that promises to bring us new levels of efficiency at a vastly reduced cost. Cl...

Forecast: Memory Virtualization Heats Up in 2010

CIO’s and IT managers agree that memory is emerging as a critical resource constraint in the data center with both economic and operational impact.  Each year, IT spends millions of dollars on adding memory to serve...

Improving Storage Optimization for Delivery of New Media Content

The Internet has evolved over the past couple decades from serving simple static HTML pages to a rich collection of formats.  The New Media consists of video, audio, images, scripts, etc. that are all combined to pr...

How to Use Master Data Management to Enhance Customer Service, Reduce Costs and Increase Sales Effectiveness

In today’s economic environment, IT organizations know they have to make smart decisions on spending amid the ongoing financial uncertainty. Some companies are drastically slashing IT spending and waiting for better ti...

Seven Tips to Help Manage Data Storage Growth

IT Managers are in a bind. Faced with massive file growth and stagnant (if not shrinking) budgets, IT professionals are no longer able to simply buy their way out of the pain.

IT has to get more efficient.

At a time when I...

Overcoming Log Data Management: Tracking Each and Every Click

Online advertising is just one example of the Internet applications driving the growth of log data. In this case, tracking online advertising delivery and click-throughs helps companies to gain extensive insight into use...

Off-Network Security — It’s All about Asset Management

After a decade of privacy laws and billions of dollars spent on data protection, data breaches are still common and persistent. The media loves to report them. Companies have learned to fear them, and for good reason. Br...

A New RAID for Cloud-Scale Data Integrity

The challenges associated with scaling data storage solutions are now applicable to IT professionals in all industries, not just a few niche, data-intensive applications. The scaling problem typically results in either su...

Why Do I Hate Tape Backup?

I’m talking about magnetic tape; not duct tape.  We all love duct tape, but have learned to hate magnetic tape for many reasons.  These reasons include the notions that tape is unreliable, slow, unsexy and a ...

The Tide Is Turning Toward Online Data Backup

Small businesses usually fall into one of three areas when it comes to backing up their business files. The first group isn’t backing up their data at all and is truly playing with fire. According to U.S. Dept. of Labo...

Corporate IT Goes Green

These are challenging times for IT organizations everywhere. After all, never before has IT had so many mission-critical applications to support, such stringent service level agreements (SLAs) to meet, or more complex in...