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Asian ISPs prepare for video explosion
News Internet service providers must be vigilant of their core infrastructure, increase capacity when necessary and use new technologies to optimize traffic flow.
Tags: Bandwidth, Network administration/implementation, Next-generation technology/networks, Networking technology, Optical networking, Google Inc., India, Video, Cable, Internet Service
Data retention strategies for SMEs
Reviews Backup and archiving may not head the IT agendas of many small businesses, but for reasons of business continuity and regulatory compliance, the prudent SME will be formulating a data retention strategy. We examine the options.
Downturn to dull flash, Ethernet storage
News Cost-conscious storage environment will see firms pass over solid-state drives and delay switch to Fiber Channel over Ethernet, says HDS CTO.
Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, Storage software, Virtualization, IT budgeting, Infrastructure/architecture management, Industry Veteran, Fiber, Storage, enterprise storage environment
IBM deduplicates Tivoli
News Big Blue offers deduplication technology in Tivoli Storage Manager 6, which it claims to have enhanced scalability and able to handle a billion objects.
Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, Data backup, disaster recovery, Storage software, IBM Corp., Backup, International Data Corp., Storage Management, Tivoli Storage Manager, Storage
Teradata: Fending off rivals with focus on data warehousing
Techguide Teradata has been increasingly mentioned by the likes of Oracle and Hewlett-Packard so much so you have to wonder what all the hubbub is about.
Tags: Data Management, Data centers, Databases, Medicare, Wells Fargo & Co., data mining, entertainment, data warehouse, Teradata, Data centers
Chambers: Businesses to adopt YouTube model
News At conference in Hong Kong, Cisco Systems' CEO says "in the future, it will be about producing it yourself."
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Web sites
Tape drive maker Ecrix gets more funding
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Data explosion will cause compliance headache
News Massive increase in the amount of digital information that needs to be stored could swamp companies that are not prepared, analysts warn.
Tags: Data Management, IT Governance
Sun plans Solaris subscription pricing
News The new price model, intended to help the software maker compete against Red Hat's Linux operating system, is expected to be in place by the end of April.
Tags: Servers, Operating systems
SQL Server races against competition
News When Microsoft launches its 64-bit version of SQL Server at the end of April, the database will cost the same as the 32-bit version, perform better, and be part of the company's bid to oust Oracle and IBM's DB/2 on high-end systems.
IBM calculates the force it takes to move atoms
News IBM has figured out how much force it takes to move atoms. Next, it will try to build things with those atoms.
Tags: Processors, R&D, Memory
IBM motors toward racetrack memory
News In the lab, magnetic pulses spur data up and down a wire. In a decade that could mean cell phones that hold the contents of entire libraries.
Tags: Memory, Processors
The big digital universe blowout
Blogs Here's a figure from analyst house IDC that's pretty mind-blowing: 161 exabytes (161 billion gigabytes) of digital infor...
Tags: Storage, Data backup, disaster recovery, Data centers, Storage software, Digital media, Video
More hard times for hard drive companies?
Insight For hard drive makers, life seems to be an uphill battle. How does the outlook for this "unglam" technology look like?
New data says there's lots of new data
News If you feel you're getting too much information, you can now cite a little more to prove it.
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