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In today's economic climate, small-to-midsized businesses (SMBs) are facing budget constraints and an increasing lack of hardware resources necessary for essential IT tasks. One of the first casualties of a beleaguered IT staff (or IT person)...
Since the release of the public beta of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 last month, there's been a lot of news coming out about Exchange. This week's TechEd North America 2009 in Los Angeles has generated some messaging news as well. Perhaps...
"We're all working in an IT atmosphere that's demanding, 'Do more with less'," said Grant Geyer, VP of Managed Services at Symantec, when I spoke to him yesterday. "We're dealing with the specters of extreme cost control and outsourcing. Budgets...
Database researcher Curt Monash has details on two enormous data warehouses maintained by eBay (EBAY), including a Greenblum system storing 17 trillion records.
A. No. The targets for LCR, CCR, and SCR must have only one database in the storage group. You can't enable SCR for a storage group that has more than one database nor add additional databases after SCR is enabled. One database per storage group...
After I wrote the recent article on backup annoyances, detailing what I saw as some of the flaws in the version of Windows Server Backup that shipped with Windows Server 2008, I was contacted by Prabu Ambravaneswaran, the program manager for...
A. Yes and no, but mostly no. The backup application that comes with R2 is not officially supported for CSV. You can manually place the CSV in redirect access mode then back up the LUN on the coordinator node, but the Volume Shadow Copy Service ...
One of the biggest changes to the default backup utility in Windows Server 2008, as compared to earlier versions, is that you can no longer backup to tape drive. Scheduled backups can only be written to removable disks or DVD drives. Given the...