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Storage management and strategy

Storage: How ‘tail latency’ impacts customer-facing applications

Henry He of Virtual Instruments looks at tail latency, the small percentage of storage I/O that could be causing big and costly problems for business applications Continue Reading
As data volumes grow, backup needs analytics, says StorageCraft CEO

Backup appliance maker’s CEO says backup needs analytics so customers can prioritise restore of critical data in a world where volumes increase by 50% a year Continue Reading
Enterprise NAS performance challenges and how to resolve them

NAS storage can be used for mission critical workloads but NFS-based storage comes with performance challenges. Jim Bahn of Virtual Instruments outlines the main ones Continue Reading
Nirvanix failure – a blow to the cloud storage model?

Cloud storage firm Nirvanix has given customers a deadline to retrieve their data. Are the reasons for its failure specific to Nirvanix or a real blow to cloud storage overall? Continue Reading
The data fragmentation challenge

Few organisations have policies to guide where data should and should not be stored. The result: data fragmentation Continue Reading

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CHIPS and Science Act boosts U.S. technology investment
Agencies including the National Science Foundation will receive a significant increase in funding from the CHIPS and Science Act ...
The basics of enterprise blockchain
The distinctions between public and enterprise blockchain matter. Gain insight into those differences and what to consider when ...
TikTok data privacy issues prompt need for social media plan
Data privacy concerns stemming from data collection practices of social media platforms means corporate leadership should be ...

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US sanctions another cryptocurrency mixer in Tornado Cash
The U.S. Treasury Department issued sanctions against Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixer accused of helping North Korea's ...
10 top open source security testing tools
From Kali Linux to Mimikatz to Metasploit, learn about 10 open source penetration testing tools organizations can use to ...
VMware: The threat of lateral movement is growing
The majority of incident response professionals surveyed for VMware's 'Global Incident Response Threat Report' observed lateral ...

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Wi-Fi sensing has the potential to be disruptive
With help from AI and machine learning, Wi-Fi sensing detects movement in the Wi-Fi environment. While it sounds promising, the ...
What an AI-driven network looks like
Log analysis and wireless management are common AI use cases in networking. Future applications could include chatbot alerts, ...
Cisco executive Todd Nightingale to take Fastly CEO job
Executive Todd Nightingale will step away from Cisco after a decade. Cisco plans to combine the enterprise networking and cloud ...

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The implications of blockchain in the chip shortage
Blockchain has been a significant contributor to the global chip shortage. Explore the role this rising technology has played.
House sends CHIPS Act to Biden's desk
Congress approved the CHIPS Act and billions more for scientific research to help the U.S. better compete against China in ...
Quantum computing market sees new partnerships, progress
From Infineon and Oxford Ionics' partnership to Cambridge and Honeywell's merger and QCI's new Entropy Quantum Computing, explore...

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A look at Presto, Trino SQL query engines
The co-creator of the open source project at Facebook reflects on 10 years of growth as he helps lead one of its resulting tools ...
How CDOs manage cloud adoption and hybrid cloud compliance
Cloud advancements are changing how chief data officers approach cloud data management as they juggle security, privacy and other...
Hazelcast CEO looks to grow real-time data platform
The CEO of the data streaming vendor discusses the direction Hazelcast is heading in as it launches a serverless platform for ...

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