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What storage managers are buying and why, page 6

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QLogic dives into directors

QLogic will announce its new SanBox 9000 director this week, but it's missing true director-class features and is encroaching on a market already dominated by Brocade and Cisco. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

Nokia E62 thin mobile productivity device

In this product review, John Shepler weighs in on Nokia's new E62 mobile device for Cingular Wireless. Continue Reading

Isilon adds snapshots, makes play for mainstream NAS

Users and analysts say Isilon's new snapshot features are a challenge to NetApp, but the NAS cluster specialist still has a way to go to compete in the enterprise. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

Tiered storage becoming tried and true

Tiered storage matches the value of data with the performance (and expense) of storage. Ideally, tiered storage can save money, while easing the access demands to any single storage tier. While tiered storage has clearly brought storage costs and performance into focus, it has yet to reach its full potential in the enterprise. Continue Reading

ISCSI gets a boost from InfiniBand

The InfiniBand protocol has already gained popularity in some bleeding-edge storage systems; a new spec will now standardise connection to iSCSI storage. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, News

NetApp operations chief talks growth

Tom Georgens, executive vice president and general manager at NetApp -- also rumoured to be in the running as next CEO -- discusses what's driving its growth. Continue Reading

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• Jo Maitland, TechTarget

Three ways to create clustered storage, page 2

Clustered storage systems run on storage servers, NAS gateways and hosts. Here's how to determine which clustered file-system architecture is best for your needs and storage environment. Continue Reading

Dell and EMC: Five more years

Dell leans on EMC for support in the face of an SEC investigation and possible delisting from NASDAQ. Continue Reading

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• Alex Barrett, News Director, Datacenter Media Group

Big security fixes for QuickTime, Flash Player

Apple and Adobe warned that attackers could exploit multiple flaws in QuickTime and Flash Player to run malicious code on targeted machines. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

Storage upstarts are tipping the vendor scales

The big storage vendors are always trying to steal a piece of each other's pie. But some small tech upstarts might play big parts in determining who comes out on top. Continue Reading

ControlGuard targets rogue devices

ControlGuard Access Manager is an effective tool for controlling what devices users can add to their workstations and how they are used. Continue Reading

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• Harris Weisman, Contributing Writer

Proofpoint delivers strong messaging security

Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway is a highly recommended, affordable solution for big enterprises that need protection from email-based attacks. Continue Reading

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• Phoram Mehta, Contributing Writer

Emulex acquisition could cloud future of FC-SATA spec

New Emulex subsidiary Sierra Logic's strength is in FC-SATA bridging technology. Meanwhile, ONStor launches midrange clustered NAS, and Quantum shareholders withhold votes. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

Riverbed update offers users more bandwidth, better reporting

Riverbed announced a package of hardware and software updates, which some customers say they've been waiting for. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

3PAR adds midrange array for secondary sites

3PAR has introduced a smaller version of its InServ Storage Server, which it describes as a product-line extension into its existing customer base. Continue Reading

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• Jo Maitland, TechTarget

What do tiered storage and ILM have to do with disaster recovery?

That idea ties back into the topics of data growth, data control, data management and recoverability. Once you start categorizing your data based on criticality and recovery priority, it gives you an indication of your data segments. We have our high-priority data, we have our medium criticality data and we have our low restore priority data. Continue Reading

Apple fixes Xsan security flaw

Attackers could exploit a security flaw in Apple's Xsan file system to launch malicious code and crash vulnerable machines, but a fix is available. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

IT bosses preparing for Byte Night

About 250 senior IT professionals will take part in the annual Byte Night charity sleep-out on London’s Embankment on 22 September in an effort to raise £300,000 to combat child homelessness. Continue Reading

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• Computer Weekly reporter

EMC updates SAN Advisor design tool

EMC's SAN design tool now recognises zones and allows users to customise rules; HP and EMC sign five-year cross-licensing deal. Continue Reading

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• SearchStorage.com Staff

Security Bytes: Exploits targeting freshly patched Apple flaw

Apple patches nearly two dozen holes in OS X, but not before exploits are unleashed. Plus McAfee fixes a critical flaw and EMC gets the OK to buy RSA. Continue Reading

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• SearchSecurity.com Staff

EqualLogic updates storage provisioning software

Users have more options when it comes to pooling storage with version 3.0 of EqualLogic's array software, but some are wondering whatever happened to the SAS disks. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

Authenticating Windows

Three options for Windows authentication with eSSO clients. Continue Reading

Automated provisioning quiz

Take this five-question quiz to see how much you've learned about automated provisioning. Continue Reading

Security Bytes: Investigators slam VA over data breach

Meanwhile: Cisco patches a router application flaw, a Washington law firm sues IBM over a server attack; and spammers sucker Web surfers with fake Vladimir Putin death reports. Continue Reading

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• SearchSecurity.com Staff

UK IT leaders plan a night under the stars for charity

About 250 senior IT professionals will take part in the annual Byte Night charity sleep-out on London’s Embankment on 22 September in an effort to raise £300,000 to combat child homelessness. Continue Reading

Sleep out to help homeless children

The annual Byte Night charity sleep-out will take place on 22 September at London’s Victoria Tower Gardens on the Embankment next to the House of Lords. Continue Reading

Battery fault prompts HP laptops recall

Hewlett-Packard is to recall more than 15,000 laptops worldwide because a fault makes them a fire hazard. Continue Reading

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• Tash Shifrin

Questions that need to be answered on NHS IT plan

Four years ago the government announced to a grateful NHS a national IT programme that would become the world's largest civil computer scheme. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Fast Guide: Storage technologies

A guide to storage technologies for both SMBs and enterprise users. This will help you sort out the advantages, limitations and applications of each technology. Continue Reading

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• Whatis and SearchStorage.com editorial

Wireless security crucial to railway safety

A transportation firm uses wireless technology to keep the trains running on time. But securing mobile devices isn't easy when they're spread across the globe. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

How to break into a computer that is right at your fingertips

Stressing the importance of physical security, Joel Dubin explains how a hacker can bypass a BIOS password and break into a computer. Continue Reading

Find out how to bridge the communications gap

Communications between the business and IT will be the subject of the next meeting of the Computer Weekly 500 Club (CW500). Continue Reading

SAS drives product roundup

Serial-attached SCSI (or SAS) drives offer significant storage capacity at a much lower cost, while maintaining reasonable performance. Find out who the vendors are in this market. Continue Reading

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• Stephen J. Bigelow, Senior Technology Editor

Spy vs. Spy

Excerpt from Chapter 6 of Spies Among Us: How to Stop the Spies, Terrorists, Hackers, and Criminals You Don't Even Know You Encounter Every Day. Continue Reading

IT professionals set for annual charity sleep-out

Senior IT professionals are gearing up to on London's Embankment near Tower Bridge on Friday 23 September 2005. The aim is to raise more than £250,000 for disadvantaged children. Continue Reading

VoIP turns up the heat on firewalls

New research shows that many organizations are increasingly concerned about VoIP security and plan to augment their firewalls within the next year, changing the landscape of the firewall market. Continue Reading

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• Eric Parizo, Senior Analyst

Extending perimeters

The news that, up until 2006, 70% of successful wireless local area network (WLAN) attacks will be because of the misconfiguration of WLAN access points and client software is disquieting on a number of levels. Continue Reading

Storage area network quiz

It's all about the storage area network (SAN) -- man. The more you know, the easier it is. Take our SAN quiz and find out where you stand as a SAN guru. Continue Reading

Trusted Computing Group releases server specs

The Trusted Computing Group released a new set of trusted server specifications it hopes will help vendors protect their platforms against security breaches. Continue Reading

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• Luke Meredith, News Writer

Tony Asaro: Blogs and more

Read what Tony Asaro is talking about in this month's blog, and listen to him speak in a number of webcasts. Continue Reading

Cisco in talks to acquire EMC?

Summary: Word has it Cisco is considering a $43 billion acquisition of EMC. With all the storage mergers going on, is this possible? Continue Reading

TNT to provide staff with e-mail smartphones rather than laptops

Logistics company TNT is to provide up to 700 staff worldwide with mobile e-mail, using the Nokia Communicator 9500 smartphone as... Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Learning Guide: Low-cost storage

Resources on low-cost networking, iSCSI, SATA and IP storage Continue Reading

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• Andrew Burton

Computer Weekly wins top honour

ComputerWeekly was last week declared the UK's campaigning magazine of the year at the publishing industry's annual awards for... Continue Reading

Linux lags Windows in new security report

A controversial research paper takes a critical look at two popular platforms' track record on vulnerabilities and fixes. In turn, its findings are facing sharp scrutiny as well. Continue Reading

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• Anne Saita, TechTarget

Managed services: Looking to the long term

IT directors looking for an easy way to manage increasing volumes of data by buying more hardware could be storing up problems... Continue Reading

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• Jessica Twentyman

Intel offers 64-bit desktop processors

Intel has introduced five processors for desktop computers using its Extended Memory Technology, EM64T, which supports hybrid... Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Strategic Storage: DR planning blueprint

Developing a good disaster recovery (DR) plan is similar to good dental hygiene -- and almost as exciting. Similar to going to the dentist twice a year, you should also test your DR plan with the same frequency. Wait too long to clean up your plan and you'll be stuck with the root canal of recovering your data. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Loop switch

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• SearchStorage.com

SATA drives product roundup

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• Shane O'Neill

'Benevolent' NT4 patches a surprise to some

Microsoft's first security bulletins of the new year included fixes for the now-unsupported Windows NT Server 4.0. On a related note, administrators are cautioned to apply one of January's patches in a specific order to avoid problems. Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Lawinski, News Writer

Computer Weekly barred from briefing on national programme

The first media demonstration of new multibillion-pound NHS IT systems took place in Whitehall last week - but technology... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

IBM sharpens blades

IBM has announced new management tools and upgraded models of its HS20 and JS20 blade servers. Continue Reading

Clear double advantage

ClearSpeed Technology has doubled the performance of its high-performance computing co-processor for scientific workstations and... Continue Reading

Fast Guide: iSCSI

If you need to come up to speed rapidly on iSCSI, you've come to the right place. In this Fast Guide, we touch upon the basics and then we walk you through the pros and cons of iSCSI and Fibre Channel. Continue Reading

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• Jen Hubley, Associate Editor, SearchStorage.com

Five steps to using the Kerberos protocol

This excerpt from "Windows Server 2003 security infrastructures" explains the basic Kerberos protocol as it is defined in RFC 1510. Continue Reading

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• Jan De Clercq

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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• Mark Lewis

Apple's SAN file system turns heads

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• Jo Maitland, TechTarget

Deals abound for high-end storage

Think high-end storage is out of your reach? Maybe not. Conversations with several storage buyers recently suggest that vendors are scrambling to give buyers the best possible deals. Continue Reading

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• Alex Barrett, Trends Editor

LAN-free, serverless and domino backups, oh my.

In case you've missed anything, here's a roundup of some of the best original technical content that appeared on SearchStorage.com the week of May 10-14. Tips and Ask the Experts Q&A's cover LAN-free, serverless and domino backups.

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• SearchStorage.com

Backup school: Quiz two, answer six

Here is the answer to Backup school quiz two, question six. Continue Reading

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• Editors

Seagate touts SAS drives as faster alternative to SATA

Seagate is set to demonstrate a 2.5-inch hard drive based on the serial-attached SCSI interface. The company says the product will fill the need for a smaller, faster and more reliable alternative to serial ATA disks. Continue Reading

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• Kevin Komiega

More questions and answers from SAN School lesson # 5

Here are additional questions and answers from SAN School Lesson 5: Designing a SAN. The questions cover topics ranging from how to determine an effective SAN design to meet your needs, to the differences between fabric switches and loop switches. Continue Reading

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• SearchStorage.com editors

More questions and answers from SAN school lesson # 8

Here are SAN School Professor Chris Poelker's answers to more user submitted questions from SAN School Lesson 8, "Tying your SANs together." Q&A's cover topics ranging from what causes SAN problems, to preventing equipment problems. Continue Reading

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• SearchStorage.com Staff

Resource guide to disk-based backup

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Learning Guide: SAN-based backups

Some of the best advice on the ins and outs of SAN-based backups Continue Reading

IT directors foresee technology revolution continuing in comms

There are those who hold that the IT revolution has petered out with no more breakthroughs to come. But IT directors attending... Continue Reading

A beginners guide to iSCSI

After five years of working with Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs), I have personally been quite confused about iSCSI, about exactly what it really does and more importantly how it works and how we can actually use it to solve real customer problems. So here, after a busy few months talking to a lot of people on the subject, are a few of my own views. Continue Reading

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• Simon Gordon

Chinook parents set to appeal to Europe

The parents of the two Chinook helicopter pilots labelled guilty of gross negligence over the Mull of Kintyre disaster are... Continue Reading

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• Parliamentary reporter

Government blocks judicial review of Chinook disaster

The Government has made it impossible for the families of two pilots blamed for the crash of Chinook helicopter ZD576 to seek a... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

MoD refuses to concede error in Chinook verdict

The Ministry of Defence (MoD), citing a new series of simulations by Boeing, has refused to clear the names of two pilots blamed... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Minister slams Chinook campaign in debate

In the week when he sent 1,700 troops to Afghanistan, defence secretary Geoff Hoon issued a blistering criticism of Computer... Continue Reading

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• Lindsay Clark

Lords Chinook challenge

The Government expects to have a debate in the House of Lords on last week's select committee report on the fatal crash of... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Boeing simulation ignored Chinook's Fadec system

A House of Lords committee investigating the crash of Chinook ZD576 on the Mull of Kintyre has found that a Boeing simulation of... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Chinook pilots may have been unable to slow down, squadron leader tells Lords

The pilots of Chinook ZD576, which crashed in Scotland in 1994, may have been unable to slow down as they approached the Mull of... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

What's in a name?

As soon as you hear an analyst, consultant, academic or supplier pontificating to an audience of Brits about CIOs, you know... Continue Reading

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• John Riley

Dell offers new Latitude to mobile users

PC maker Dell is offering a new Latitude C610 notebook PC with extended battery life of up to eight hours. Continue Reading

Intel launches new mobile processors

Intel has launched 12 new mobile processors, ranging from its fastest mobile chip yet to the first .13 micron version of its... Continue Reading

Tablet PC enters mass production

First International Computer (FIC) is on the verge of beginning mass production of a tablet PC based on Transmeta's Crusoe... Continue Reading

Intel cancels 2GHz Xeon

Intel has decided not to launch the expected 2GHz version of its Xeon processor for dual-processor servers this year, opting to... Continue Reading

AMD to put Palomino on desktop

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is set to launch its first desktop processor based on the Palomino core. Continue Reading

IBM unveils its "fastest ever" Unix server

IBM has used its Web site to provide details of a new Unix server, touting the processors in the pSeries 660 6M1 as the company's... Continue Reading

Let computers make the decisions

Intel is working on ways to enable computers to anticipate user needs and act on their behalf - a move that could help companies... Continue Reading

Arapahoe gains support from heavyweights

A new PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) interface called Arapahoe gained momentum on 29 August as 22 industry-leading... Continue Reading

Slow market spells trouble for Sun

Sun Microsystems warned that slow order rates for the company's hardware, particularly in Europe and Japan, will make it tough... Continue Reading

HP gambles on Itanium

A top Hewlett-Packard executive has signalled his company's commitment to Intel Itanium processor in perhaps the strongest terms... Continue Reading

Intel to reveal 2GHz Xeon chip

Intel plans to show off its fastest processor to date for workstations and servers at the Siggraph 2001 computer graphics trade... Continue Reading

Full blown Location Based Services rolled out to mass market

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• Will Garside

Government funds online access to bridge digital divide

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• Chris Mugan

Grpup-buying sites prove unpopular

Group buying sites seemed like a good idea, but failed to attract much attention. Sun and Microsoft's sites, on the other hand,... Continue Reading

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• Glyn Moody

Finding the right Web recipe

Take two companies with the necessary ingredients. How do you make them gel? Stir in a project manager Continue Reading

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• Roisin Woolnough

Going going gone - one top end server

A top-end Unix server is not the kind of thing you would normally expect to buy at an auction. But technology marts, pioneered by Sun Microsystems, are now... Continue Reading

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• Nicholas Enticknap

Lost stock and stolen barrels

Intelligent radio tagging keeps track of assets and helps streamline business. Bill Goodwin reports Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

CW briefs Lords on fatal Chinook crash

Tony Collins

Members of the House of Lords have been briefed by Computer Weekly on computer and other problems that afflicted...

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• Tony Collins

Future mobile

Antony Savvas explores the future mobile network Continue Reading

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• Antony Savvas

Parliament push to clear Chinook pilots

Tony Collins

Senior MPs and Lords, including a raft of former ministers, decided last week to form a cross-party action group in a bid to...

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• Tony Collins

Servers developments under the spotlight

IBM claims a 20%-30% efficiency improvement with its latest processor technology compared with existing chips. The silicon-on-insulator technology uses a glass... Continue Reading

What we can all learn from Linux

At first sight it may not be entirely clear what the stock market listing of VA Linux in December last year has to do with e-business and technology. But... Continue Reading

Case Study: ProLiant servers by Compaq

Building a gas pipeline connecting Britain and the continent proved to be an enormous task, but it’s proved to be a project built... Continue Reading

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• Ian Burley