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Computer storage hardware
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Configure datacentres with green tech to save costs
The current driver for green technology is to save money through optimising energy use, rather than a desire to be seen to be green. Continue Reading
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In-house tape vs cloud archiving: What are the pros and cons?
Have cloud archiving services reached a tipping point that makes them cheaper and easier to manage than in-house tape archives? Continue Reading
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BYOD policy and the data protection products that can help
We look at BYOD data protection in backup apps and specialist products as BYOD policy demands backup and remote wipe capabilities Continue Reading
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Entry-level SAN products target SME virtualisation projects
Virtual machines need shared storage. Sometimes that means block access via an entry-level SAN. We survey the entry-level SAN market Continue Reading
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Deduplication and single instance storage cut primary data storage costs
Data deduplication and single instance storage can cut costs in primary data environments, but implementations vary between suppliers. Continue Reading
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Top 10 supplier profiles 2012
Download in-depth reports on leading IT suppliers from Computer Weekly Continue Reading
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Lack of cloud standards holds up enterprise progress
Problems with management, portability and interoperability are preventing firms realising the benefits of infrastructure on demand. Continue Reading
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How IBM researchers hope to change the world
IBM's Zurich research labs opened its doors to reveal some of the technologies we can expect to be using in 10 to 15 years Continue Reading
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Tune Raid performance to get the most from your HDDs
Tune Raid performance at the storage controller to match application I/O demands to optimal hard drive (HDD) performance Continue Reading
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SMEs: Optimising IT assets
A full lifecycle management approach to hardware can help small businesses extract the greatest value from their IT purchases. Continue Reading
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Interview: Angela Tucci, chief strategy officer, Symantec
Angela Tucci, chief strategy officer at Symantec, talks to Computer Weekly about the company's strategic plans Continue Reading
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Forrester: Derive maximum value from storage
Forrester analysts Andrew Reichman and Vanessa Alvarex identify the top trends in the storage market Continue Reading
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Mandatory carbon reporting: Indirect emissions guidelines for IT managers
As the UK government announces mandatory carbon reporting for listed companies, how are IT managers to interpret guidelines on indirect emissions? Continue Reading
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Delivering value from desktop virtualisation
IT leaders met at a recent Computer Weekly roundtable event to discuss the implications of desktop virtualisation on their technology infrastructure. Continue Reading
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How will storage infrastructure change with VDI deployments?
The benefits of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) are well-documented but firms implementing VDI may have to re-appraise their storage options Continue Reading
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Forrester: The next wave of virtualisation
Virtualisation is evolving. IT departments now have a raft of products to deploy within their infrastructure, optimised for virtualisation. Continue Reading
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Computer Weekly / TechTarget IT priorities survey 2012
Learn which IT priorities are at the top of UK IT managers lists for 2012. Coverage from across our network includes cloud, budget cuts, networking, security, disaster recovery and more. Continue Reading
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Buyer's Guide: What next for virtualisation?
You’d be forgiven for thinking that virtualisation is a done deal, but research shows its uptake is still not moving at the speed many would like. Continue Reading
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Self-encrypting drives: What's holding back SED hard drive encryption security?
The self-encrypting drive (SED) provides a high level of data security, is invisible to the user, does not affect workflow or performance and cannot be turned off, yet SED technology has been adopted by relatively few organisations – so what's ... Continue Reading
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Self-encrypting drives: SED the best-kept secret in hard drive encryption security
The SED solves many common data loss problems and is easy to use and manage with minimal impact on system performance – yet relatively few businesses and governments use SEDs. Continue Reading
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How to measure the value of a green IT infrastructure
Although 'green' slid down the list of priorities during the recession, it has not disappeared completely thanks to the advent of government-driven green initiatives Continue Reading
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Buyers guide to IT infrastructure
Best practice in datacentre design dictates that as much IT infrastructure as possible should be virtualised. Doing so improves agility, allowing the IT department to flex resources up and down to meet the demands of the business. Continue Reading
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Scotmid readies for expansion by consolidating with an IBM solution
As one of Scotland’s leading retailers,the Scottish Midland Co-operativeSociety, or Scotmid, has roots that go back almost a century and a half. Continue Reading
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Murray Goulburn solves growth and flexibility challenges with IBM
Farmers’ co-operative Murray Goulburn wanted to introduce faster and more reliable business reporting across its nine manufacturing sites in Australia. Continue Reading
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Baylor College of Medicine finds an IBM Power Systems solution
By consolidating their legacy servers onto three Power servers and successfully virtualizing a range of critical applications, Baylor was able to reduce their data center footprint from eight racks to three. Continue Reading
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How to resell old storage when you upgrade
Reselling old storage devices when upgrading to newer platforms can be a complex issue, particularly when it comes to the content stored on it. Continue Reading
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Features: Storage (October 2009)
Content synopses and information about the storage features that will run through October 2009 at Computer Weekly. Continue Reading
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SMI-S storage standard breaks supplier lock-in
There is work to be done, but the Storage Management Initiative - Specification (SMI-S) standard promises best-of-breed storage systems, easily provisioned by informed users. Continue Reading
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Has the time come for solid state discs?
IBM's recent launch of solid state disk storage products for the enterprise was an endorsement of a much misunderstood technology. Could it be time to take this seriously? Continue Reading
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End users 'biggest winners' from HP's acquisition of EDS
End users could be the big winners following Hewlett-Packard's announcement that it is to acquire outsourcing company EDS for £7.13bn. Continue Reading
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San in tune for BRIT School
Centralised storage brings famous music school increased archival security plus added flexibility. Continue Reading
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Supercomputers help Exeter reach for the stars
Are we alone in the universe? Could life exist on other planets? Questions like these have inspired countless science fiction stories, but at the University of Exeter's Astrophysics department, these queries are at the forefront of research. The ... Continue Reading
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Storage for virtual environments learning guide
Storage considerations for the virtualised environment are outlined in this guide. Learn about storage options and strategies for storage for virtualisation in the datacenter in three categories: architecture, operations and back-up. Continue Reading
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Tape encryption purchase considerations
Storage administrators who use tape-based won't slow up their backups and will have peace of mind knowing that the tape content is secure. However, LTO-4 tape drives have specific encryption issues. Continue Reading
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Disk-based backup overview
Implementing a backup scheme that is fast, safe and cost-effective remains a serious challenge for storage administrators. Here's how to do it Continue Reading
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Data Storage Management Survival School
All of the aspects of managing storage and how to optimise your environments to minimise the data management crunch Continue Reading
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Tiered storage tool purchases demand careful consideration
The practice of tiered storage has emerged as a way to mitigate expense by keeping mission-critical data on the fastest disc platforms, Continue Reading
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Data migration product specifications
Part of the Tiered Storage Buying guide focusing on product specifications for data migration tools. Continue Reading
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Storage guide, 2:conventional drives and semiconductor memory
Will conventional electromechanical hard drives eventually become extinct and the changing role of semiconductor memory on hard drives Continue Reading
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Your guide to retrieving deleted files
Hitting delete will not completely erase data from your systems, so how can you retrieve the data if you need it, and how can you be sure that it’s really gone? Continue Reading
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Tiered Storage School: Table of Contents
Get a better understanding of what tiering can do for your storage, how it works and why a tiered plan can aid in backup, DR, overall management and long-term archive Continue Reading
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Storage consolidation: SRM tools overview
SRM tools are an important part of storage consolidation. They allow admins to monitor the storage environment, allocate and organise available storage, and offer insights into future trends. Continue Reading
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Disk arrays overview
The lowdown on storage arrays that provides an independent, standalone platform where disks can be gathered into extremely large groups Continue Reading
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Storage Decisions Session Downloads: Architecture Track (LV 2006)
More than 70% of the attendees of Storage Decisions say they are setting up or evaluating a tiered storage architecture. Featured in this track are Tiered Storage School sessions along with other sessions that can help any manager set up or ... Continue Reading
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Discarded hard drives can be dangerous
A treasure trove of sensitive information can end up in the wrong hands if old hard drives aren't properly disposed of, one security expert warns. Continue Reading
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Hybrids give sluggish PCs the boot
Suppliers are combining flash memory with traditional hard discs to create hybrid drives with data transfer rates suitable for high-performance software Continue Reading
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Storage: Is your company data well preserved?
Your data is only as good as the media it is stored on and the format that it is stored in, writes Danny Bradbury – and in the long term, both are transient at best Continue Reading
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IBM begins development work on 100Tbyte tape drive
IBM has begun work on new technologies designed to boost the capacity of tape storage devices by 250 times. Using... Continue Reading
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NetApp offers virtualised storage
Network Appliance's microkernel appliance operating system, Data ONTAP, has had virtualisation added in its latest version, 7G. Continue Reading
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Defence in depth
Putting storage on the network has brought many benefits but it has also widened the security threat. Protecting the perimeter is... Continue Reading
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Compliance will drive storage demand, says Veritas CEO
Veritas Software chief executive officer Gary Bloom talks about compliance, Linux and the challenges of ILM. Continue Reading
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Storage Management Survival School:Lesson seven
Lesson seven of "Storage Management Survival School" helps you build a dedicated storage management group. Continue Reading
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Storage Management Survival School: Lesson five
In this session, Jamie Gruener examines the steps you should consider in designing a tiered storage model, what the pitfalls are and the overall benefits. Continue Reading
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Put security policies in place for portable storage devices
Learn from the US Department of Energy’s troubles. If you deal with sensitive information, adopt strong security policies for... Continue Reading
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Storage Management Survival School: Lesson one
Yankee Group senior analyst Jamie Gruener looks at how to begin your own ROI analysis of storage management tools Continue Reading
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IBM’s new smaller mainframe and storage may lower total costs
IBM has introduced a scaled-down version of its Enterprise Storage Server 800 (ESS 800). When matched with new mainframe options,... Continue Reading
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Storage strategy
Buying leading-edge products is not the best option for most businesses, but make sure you do not get caught out as your needs... Continue Reading
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IBM will drop Windows-based storage, sources claim
IBM plans to discontinue its line of Windows-based network-attached storage devices to focus on higher-end products, including an... Continue Reading
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Emerging iSCSI viability depends on startups
An emerging storage protocol, supported by industry heavyweights such as IBM, Cisco Systems and EMC, promises to make storage... Continue Reading
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Storage software is a bigger piece of the equation
Are the overall costs of storage changing? Continue Reading
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Where do you keep your data?
The onset of Internet-enabled applications has made data storage a big issue for IT managers. In this special report we examine... Continue Reading
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Want to see the future of storage? Look to Linux
Fashion can deceive, but backing Linux is looking a cosy fit. Continue Reading
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Plan for future storage needs
UK businesses are spending huge sums on storage without showing any return on their investment because they are failing to plan... Continue Reading
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System's savings help Sunderland win Micra
Nissan UK's Sunderland plant has won production of the Micra thanks to savings resulting from the installation of a data storage... Continue Reading
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Archiving for the digital age
As the quest for the paperless office continues, Philip Hunter reports on current thinking on digital archiving Continue Reading
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IBM-Compaq alliance: is it showing signs of strain?
As the disk storage market continues its inexorable growth, the alliance between IBM and Compaq is 'not a side-show but two... Continue Reading
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The threat of bust in the storage boom
Vacated offices stand as tombstones to one-time industry giants that failed to anticipate CIOs' wants Continue Reading
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NAS has the edge as storage booms
Demand for network-attached storage has boomed thanks to the dotcoms. Nicholas Enticknap reports Continue Reading
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Scalable storage solutions for businesses
When determining the storage needs of your business, it is essential to pick a hardware partner with high quality products as... Continue Reading
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Tomorrow's storage world dawns today
What new technologies and systems are emerging to help IT managers cope with the ever-increasing demand for storage? Nick... Continue Reading
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Fault tolerance: A SMART move
The SMART system allows for a high degree of fault tolerance when incorporated in hard disk drives Continue Reading
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San and deliver: solving your storage problems
Storage area networks offer the flexibility to mix and match storage system suppliers, as well as allowing storage to be... Continue Reading
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Clash of the storage titans
In the high-end storage market major IT suppliers and a lone storage specialist are slugging it out in the fight for lucrative... Continue Reading
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Case Study: Iomega Zip 100 & 250 drives
De-centralised storage enabled by built-in Zip drives proved the answer to the University of Hertfordshire's storage problems... Continue Reading
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White Paper: How to protect your NT system from viruses
The Windows NT system has many features that both protect it from and make it susceptible to virus attack Continue Reading
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Case Study: Using Quantum's hard drives in the new Panasonic/Replay Networks Hard Disk Recorder
The arrival of hard disk recorders heralds a new opportunity for PC hard drive manufacturer Quantum and consumer VCR supplier... Continue Reading