The financial and
healthcare industries
continue to face
increasingly more
stringent compliance
requirements. Small and
medium-sized enterprises
(SMEs) are turning to
business intelligence
(BI) tools to help make
sense of the moun...
Much is being made about
network attached storage
(NAS) and storage area
networks (SANs) as
options for the
high-volume data storage
needs of modern
enterprises. Yet when you
look closely, these are
not competing solutions,
but ra...
When my company was
designing its data
center, we had to make a
choice: What kind of
database storage system
was going to be the
backbone of our
operations? As in most
things IT, the options
were seemingly endless,
and there are m...
The recent startling
announcement that the
SHA-1 hash function
wasn't as secure as
believed raised
interesting questions in
the world of one-time
password technology,
since the newly proposed
HOTP algorithm is based
on SHA-1: Shou...
Version upgrades from
software, infrastructure,
and security vendors give
businesses the impression
that their enterprises
are protected from new
threats ? but is it a
false sense of security?
The answer is yes if your
security depl...
With heightened security
requirements since 9/11,
airports have a major
responsibility to
distinguish and identify
law-abiding travelers
from wanted criminals and
legitimate security
threats. As millions of
commuters, tourists,
bu...
While e-mail may be a
killer app, poorly
archived e-mail can kill
a business. During a
recent prescription drug
antitrust case, the
plaintiff demanded a
discovery search of 30
million pages of e-mail
stored on the defendant?s
back...
Adware and spyware - they
may be as hard to define
as they are to eradicate.
But there's one thing
just about everyone can
agree on: what started as
a minor annoyance has
ballooned into a
full-blown corporate
headache.
Virtualization is
arguably one of the most
prominent 'buzz'
technologies in the
computing industry today
- with more than $4.2
billion in reported deal
values for M&A activity
since December 2000. It's
a key component in just
abou...
Last month we skipped the
introduction to summarize
some of the things we
hope to bring to you in
the coming year. This
month we are circling
back to our backgrounds
in the hopes that this
will help explain why we
might be suited to...
Managing the surge of
file-based data has
become increasingly
difficult and complex.
Virtualizing NAS through
Network File
Virtualization (NFV)
simplifies storage
management and enables
administrators to easily
address management ...
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IT groups need to be able
to consider adopting new
backup software for many
good reasons. New
software might have
features and benefits the
company needs. The curren
Unlike older spam
filters, in which the
author programs the
characteristics of spam,
statistical filtering
automatically chooses the
characteristics (or
'features')