Ohio official loses a week's vacation for theft of tape
An Ohio official will lose a week of vacation for failing to create a process that would have prevented the June theft of a tape drive containing personal information on state employees and taxpayers. Read more...

Sun CEO discloses plan to merge storage, server units

HP strengthens e-discovery capabilities

IT executives pan storage vendors for not being green

Report: EMC looking to buy online backup service

Security holes expose data stored in Tivoli storage system

Symantec issues bogus warning of full-scale Internet meltdown

Experts Say More Personal Data Is on Stolen Ohio Tape

Despite 9/11, IT is 'overconfident' about disaster recovery

Apple users frustrated over lack of online backup options

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Opinion: Where archive and backup collide
The merger of archive and backup data under the auspices of backup software now appears inevitable. The combination of the corporatewide use of backup software and the introduction of disk into the backup infrastructure foretells a future where archive and backup become one.

FAQ: Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Affect Storage Plans
The high cost of retrieving data is no longer an excuse for not producing it as evidence in a civil legal procedure. That makes IT inextricable from the discovery process of corporate litigation.

Opinion: Storage arrays are dead; long live the tape library
Sun won't have a storage engineering team separate from server engineering anymore. Does this mean Sun won't continue to sell storage arrays? Of course not; arrays will certainly stick around for a while, thanks to the need to absorb ever higher tides of digital data.

CDP or de-dupe? Tips to picking one over the other
Continuous data protection and data de-duplication have similar traits, but knowing which technology to use, and in what circumstances, is not always straightforward. Here are some tips to help administrators determine which one to use and when.

Opinion: Whether to go with online or local backup
A rumor that EMC may be purchasing Mozy, the Web-based online backup service, piqued Jim Damoulakis' interest. He says he's seeing more online storage services with important roles to play in addressing the glaring lack of appropriate protection for data at the edge.

Opinion: Practical disaster recovery
When launching such an effort, it is critical to establish and ensure agreement on some fundamental assumptions. Failure to do so will only lead to problems down the road.

Review: Microsoft online storage service shows promise
You receive 500MB of free online storage (though files can be no bigger than 50MB each), and you can store any type of file to a Private, Public, or Shared folder. No one except you, with your log-in name and password, can access Private folders.

Tech wonders on homeland security horizon
Already in use are such things as infrared cameras with built-in brains that capture license plate images and match them in milliseconds to police records of vehicles of interest to the authorities.

Opinion: When good disks go bad
This organization fell victim to what can be described as the Achilles' heel of storage infrastructure - the intersection of technology bugs and human error. This is a highly unpredictable type of risk, and unfortunately the opportunities for prevention and avoidance are few.

Opinion: Vista takes out 15% of your hard drive
Wondering why that new Vista laptop is missing 12GB of capacity from it's 80GB hard drive? Look no further than Microsoft's attempt to get you to use Volume Shadow Copy. But, at least in this case, the lost capacity is going to good use. While not a replacement for centralized corporate backups, VSS takes automatic snapshots of your data and makes it easy to recover.

Consumer devices and services pose threats to security and infrastructure stability. Which are the worst, and what can you do about it? We asked usability experts to compare the iPhone with two competitors to see if Apple's device matches its hype. They came up with an unequivocal answer. Can Apple make even a spreadsheet cool? Our reviewer examines the new office productivity suite for the Mac.
With IT's unfettered access to both professional and personal data, should "follow your conscience" be part of the job description?

Reviews, analyses, how-tos, visual tours, hot issues and predictions about Microsoft's new OS.

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