Density is the name of the game in data centers, letting IT administrators put more of everything in smaller, more efficient spaces. The ultimate in server density is blade servers utilizing SAN storage, which lets IT...
With the release of System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007, Microsoft takes a big step forward in delivering an end-to-end data protection system optimized for Windows Server workloads. A significant upgrade...
At the beginning of the year, I opted for a notebook with a performance hard drive--an 80GB 7200rpm Serial ATA (SATA) drive--over the higher-capacity, but slower, 120GB 5400rpm SATA drive. I could have gone to a 100GB...
One of the biggest problems that storage administrators deal with is the amount of storage and backup space taken up by duplicate files. A 1MB document with wide enterprise distribution in a large corporate...
To get ready for the inevitable questions from clients and for my own edification, I’ve been looking at what the pending release of Windows Vista SP1 will mean to them and to me...
Streamline one of your most resource-intensive IT tasks
Recently I decided to move my primary email to a hosted Microsoft Exchange provider. At the same time, one of my Web hosting providers (who I’ve used for seven years and where my primary domain name is hosted) decided...
Small businesses and flexible storage rarely go together. Because small businesses tend to lack internal IT support and therefore rarely perform backups, making storage solutions flexible for a small company can be...
NAS is an affordable option