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EMC updates storage management software
Among other announcements, EMC's NetWorker, enterprise backup and recovery software, will now support Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization system. Read more...

Veritas service helps companies find hidden risks in data centers

i365 offers new backup capabilities for SMBs

Ancient IBM drive rescues Apollo moon data

Study: Critical infrastructure often under cyberattack

EMC's Atmos cloud storage aims to tie together global data depositories

NetApp Says Economic Woes Killed User Confab

Apple's laptops escape latest Sony battery recall

Women more likely than men to get injured in tech workplaces

Mimosa, Hitachi team up on complete archiving system

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Supply chain execs share disaster-planning techniques
Sturdy IT systems, strong lines of communication with trading partners, and training exercises can help businesses prepare for management during a disaster, according to a panel of supply chain experts at the Retail Systems show held in Chicago this spring.

Disaster recovery high on SAN user's list
When Michael Amble's storage-area network is down, it costs the financial-services firm he works for US$4 million per hour.

Affordable disaster recovery
Q: When will disaster recovery solutions become attainable by "normal" companies? -- D.H., Rochester, N.Y.

Oracle Bringing Fusion Plan to Users, Exec Says
John Wookey, senior vice president of applications development at Oracle, said the firm plans to ship pieces of its next-generation Fusion applications to users this year.

Opinion: What has happened to storage security?
Some organizations have chosen to head in a completely different direction from traditional storage security measures, seeking to address their off-site data problem not through encryption but instead by simply eliminating the need for third-party services that off-site data storage.

How TBS screwed up its ALCS game coverage
Two failed routers kept TBS from broadcasting the first 20 minutes of the sixth game of the ALCS baseball game -- a mistake that likely cost the station millions in ad revenue and hurt their reputation among millions of viewers.

SNW: All about how to do more with less
SNW featured the announcements of a number of new products, including an enterprise-class "black box" device modeled after airplane flight data recorders and a solid-state drive that offers an order-of-magnitude performance improvement over its predecessors.

Extreme IT: Hurricanes, high winds and heavy seas in the Gulf of Mexico
The IT manager for Chevron's Gulf oil platforms and support facilities talks about communications challenges in the face of salt air, lightning strikes, high winds and other weather events.

Disaster management: What are we doing?
October 8 marks the one-year anniversary of the 7.6 earthquake that shook Pakistan to its core, killing 73,000 people and leaving 3.5 million homeless. This is a look back at how rescue and recovery efforts fell short.

If you're like our 7,000 survey respondents, your paycheck this year has been flattened and your bonus obliterated. We offer 12 ways to plump up your paycheck.
Microsoft's next OS might more accurately be called Windows 6.5: It's essentially a better version of Vista.
Twitter can be a valuable business tool -- if you know what you're doing. Here's how to juice it for all it's worth.
By helping Intel with loosened 'Vista Capable' requirements, Microsoft 'severely damaged' its credibility, said an HP exec in a newly unsealed Feb. 2006 e-mail.
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Deploying Virtualized NetWare on Linux Whitepaper
(Source: Novell) IT managers are increasingly excited about SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 from Novell and the many benefits provided by its included Xen* virtualization technology. Among these benefits are server consolidation, workload isolation and disaster recovery through dynamic server migration-which are motivating more organizations to migrate to Linux.
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Protecting Exchange
While it was once just a convenient way for employees to communicate internally, today e-mail systems like Exchange are tightly integrated with other business applications and are one of the primary methods for communicating with current and prospective customers. Protecting Exchange against costly downtime has become a top priority for more IT departments. So how do you ensure that your Exchange environment is always protected?
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(Source: Computerworld) Is your organization facing the struggles of ineffective capacity utilization, growing data volumes, labor intensive storage management, and a need for better disaster recovery?

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Forrester Analyst Report: X86 Server Virtualization For High Availability and Disaster Recovery
According to a recent Forrester study, 49% of enterprises surveyed that are implementing or interested in x86 server virtualization. In particular, x86 server virtualization can improve the availability of business-critical systems that are important to the business but not critical enough to warrant the investment in expensive and complex resiliency technologies like fault-tolerant hardware or clustering.

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Yankee Group. "Disaster Strikes! Is Your Business Ready? Disaster Preparedness for Mid-Sized Firms"
Mid-sized businesses have long struggled to protect their IT systems. Many firms are inadequately protected and mistakenly think that a disaster is rare and won't happen to them anytime soon. This custom Yankee Group Report studies the newest technology trends, such as virtualization and storage replication, which make powerful DR solutions attainable and affordable even for mid-sized businesses.

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VMware White Paper: Transforming Disaster Recovery - VMware Infrastructure for rapid, reliable and cost-effective Disaster Recovery
VMware Infrastructure transforms disaster recovery by providing you fast, reliable and cost-effective disaster recovery. Why suffer from the slow, expensive and unreliable problems associated with traditional disaster recovery solution? VMware makes disaster recovery affordable through consolidation savings and re-use of existing servers for your disaster recovery site. Experience the speed of virtualization!

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