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5 tips to ensure cloud data quality
News Choose neutral platforms and read providers' fine-print. These are steps companies should take before leaping to cloud, say data management vendors.
Tags: Cloud computing, Database management, Software, Database, Cloud, Informatica, Tool, SLA, remote site, Cloud computing
A closer look at 'data de-duplication'
Techguide Businesses are now taking a second look at a technology tipped to help eliminate duplicate data and optimize storage capacity.
Tags: Storage
Globbing wildcard characters with zsh
Techguide Vincent Danen explains globbing with wildcard characters, and how using globbing in the z shell (zsh) yields powerful results.
Remotely monitor servers with the Nagios check_by_ssh plugin
Techguide If you are using Nagios to monitor remote servers, you have more than one method to execute checks including the use of the check_by_ssh plugin.
Tags: Open source, Asset/resource/knowledge management, Infrastructure/architecture management, C, Plug-in, SSH, Passphrase, Password, remote site, Nagios
Netgear to deliver 24TB NAS system
News ReadyNAS rack-mounted appliance aimed at small and midsize businesses, will eventually hold up to 24TB as new drives become available.
Tags: Data Management, Data backup, disaster recovery, SMB, Backup, Database, Storage, Small And Medium Business, Small Business, NAS, product marketing
HDS storage controller gets failover clustering
News High Availability Manager adds clustering capabilities to Universal Storage Platform V controller, with the promise of no downtime for applications or servers.
Tags: Data Management, Storage, Hitachi Ltd., EMC Corp., Storage, Gartner Inc., clustering, Sun Microsystems Inc., high availability, failover
Cisco finds security flaw in router software
News Routers running certain telephony features could be vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks. A patch is available.
Tags: Hacking, IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems)
Remove orphaned Exchange 5.5 objects
Insight tutorial This tip helps you stay on top of directory replication problems and shows you how to remove ophaned objects.
Tags: Personal applications
Database Management: Continuity planning for non-data center assets
Insight Data stored outside the data center can be as critical to a company's survival as its centralized data. Here are some tips for backing up and archiving that data.
WiMax races to medical aid
Insight High-speed connectivity enables medical services to be carried out more speedily at the Australian Grand Prix.
Tags: Wireless LANs, WiMax, Mobile/Wireless
HP adds wireless module to edge switch
Techguide The latest add-on can be plugged into an existing HP ProCurve edge LAN switch to deliver wireless capabilities.
Tags: Wireless LANs, 802.11/Wi-Fi
Learn the pros and cons of remote-availability systems
Techguide When preparing for a disaster, the ability to fail over to a remote location with a minimum of downtime can definitely offer advantages. While remote-availability solutions offer both pros and cons, these solutions play a role in many business continuity plans.
Don't underestimate reliability and importance of tape-based backups
Techguide Tape backups might seem old-fashioned but Mike Talon tells you why tape still has an important role in your disaster recovery plan.
Tags: Storage, Data backup, disaster recovery, IT Management, Security, Disaster recovery
HP adds wireless module to edge switch
News The latest add-on can be plugged into an existing HP ProCurve edge LAN switch to deliver wireless capabilities.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Routing/switching, Ethernet, Network standards/protocols, LANs and WANs, Data security, 802.11/Wi-Fi, Mobile platforms/communications, Wireless LANs, Networking technology
Try this workaround for time-out issues
Techguide Have you found that there are some Web sites that time out on you, and you're not sure why? It may be due to the TCP window scaling issue in Linux kernel 2.6.17 and higher.
Tags: Linux, Linux desktop OS, Linux server OS
