Beth Pariseau, News Writer

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NetApp general manager Suresh Vasudevan talks with SearchStorage.com about ILM, security, the OEM deal with IBM and a reshuffle in the company's executive team.

What technologies look interesting to you that NetApp [Network Appliance Inc.] doesn't offer today?

Suresh Vasudevan: Let me touch on some of the spaces where we've already made More...
Nov 3, 2005
IBM has announced that users can take "test drives" of its new database management system (DBMS), known as DB2. The newest release of DB2, code-named "Viper," claims to deliver new storage benefits, as well as greater efficiency in database queries.

IBM is pushing two new storage-centric features with the new version of DB2, called cache hinting and I/O More...

Apr 13, 2006

A report by CitiFinancial earlier this week, that personal data on 3.9 million customers had been lost by a UPS courier, made a splash on newswires -- but users said implementing the correct security solution isn't easy.

CitiFinancial was the latest in a growing list of companies that have found their data security compromised in recent months More...

Jun 15, 2005
NEW YORK – According to users at Storage Decisions, the biggest obstacle to creating a truly effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy isn't technology, logistics, or even finances -- it's getting the support of their organization in creating a realistic plan.

During a session entitled "Ten reasons your DR plan won't work," Glasshouse Technologies More...

Oct 4, 2005
As reported previously by SearchStorage.com, a Senate panel approved a bill last week, known as The Personal Data Privacy and Security Act, or the Specter-Leahy Act, concerning data-breach notification. If the bill becomes law, it would require any company holding personal data on more than 10,000 Americans to implement privacy and security policies.

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Dec 13, 2005
Trust no one. That's the increasing sense users have when it comes to protecting data, and it's now throwing a wrench into every aspect of managing storage, whether a company is regulated or not. The latest uncomplicated process to inspire new paranoia: data on failed disks sent back to a vendor for repair.

When disks are sent to vendors, they are sometimes More...

Dec 7, 2005
Increased regulation, according to healthcare users, has hit their industry hard. Harder, most estimate, than regulations in other industries where businesses are more used to staying on top of trends in IT.

In fact, most of the healthcare users SearchStorage.com spoke with had only made the move from DAS systems last year, and then only grudgingly in More...

Jan 4, 2006
Despite all the attention paid last year to data on backup tapes being lost in transit, storage experts say that the loss of 206,000 customers' sensitive personal data reported by the timeshare unit of Marriott International Inc. last week shows that many companies aren't protecting themselves as well from internal threats.

The tapes, according to More...
Jan 5, 2006
New amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), which go into effect in December, will mean that there's a "safe harbor" when it comes to data discovery in litigation -- if the defendant has made a "good faith" effort to maintain a data retention/deletion policy, it won't be held liable for failure to produce a record.

This possible "safe harbor More...

Aug 16, 2006
Four new products hit the market this week in the compliance space -- and analysts said it's part of a larger trend toward data retention as standard business practice, even in businesses unaffected by specific government or industry regulations.

Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) unveiled a consulting partnership with Deloitte Consulting LLP More...

Aug 31, 2005
When I arrive at EMC's headquarters in Hopkinton, Mass., for my day-long tour of its facilities, I am greeted by a 36-inch plasma TV screen in the building's lobby displaying programming on the company's current obsession: information lifecycle management, or ILM.

ILM is all I will hear in EMC's message-fest today. To say the company is beating the drum on this More...

Aug 30, 2005
NEW YORK – According to users at Storage Decisions, the biggest obstacle to creating a truly effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy isn't technology, logistics, or even finances -- it's getting the support of their organization in creating a realistic plan.

During a session entitled "Ten reasons your DR plan won't work," Glasshouse Technologies More...

Sep 30, 2005
As more and more users deploy data deduplication in secondary storage, competition among vendors in the market is growing intense. Executives from dedupe players Avamar Technologies Inc., which was acquired by EMC Corp. last October for $165 million, and Diligent Technologies Corp. hit the road recently to meet with media and analysts, and make their More...
Mar 20, 2007
EMC Corp. announced at the Storage Networking World (SNW) show in Florida today that it will purchase data deduplication backup company Avamar Technologies Inc. for $165 million -- yet another acquisition and within days of CEO Joe Tucci promising a slowdown in the company's buying spree.

Avamar makes a disk-based backup product called the Axiom. It is More...

Nov 2, 2006
Data Compliance Podcasts
Top Reasons to Look at CA Recovery Management to Address All Your Data Protection Needs Podcast by CA
discusses how CA Recovery Management release 12 can help you solve key data protection challenges. This podcast discusses how CA Recovery Management release 12 can help you solve key data protection challenges. Mat Dickson, VP of Development answers questions that go beyond common discussions on
Learn the tools and techniques needed to protect against data loss by Symantec Corporation
Group, discusses the tools and techniques needed to protect against data leakage. Information can escape from your organization through every end point and device, and it's your job to make sure that data doesn't get into the wrong hands that could cause your company's trade secrets to become public
PODCAST: BI and Performance Management Best Practices for Your SAP Investment by Cognos, an IBM Company
performance management (PM) efforts with a solution that can unify all data, deliver analytics and create information to support critical business planning and decision-making. Explore best practices for providing trusted information that is needed to support revenue and cost insights from your
WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
ProtecTIER: Changing the Game With An Enterprise-class Disk-based Data Protection Solution by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
is the first enterprise-class disk-based data protection solution that enables customers to effectively increase the capacity of disk systems by 25 times or more. Read about this world-class solution here. Diligent Technologies' ProtecTIER platform is the first enterprise-class disk-based data protection solution that enables customers to effectively increase the capacity of
Channel Success Stories: The SMB Market
Case Study: KIS
by Dell PartnerDirect and Intel
will give you insight into how KIS is addressing Data Consolidation and Management; Green IT; Virtualization; Security; Unified Communications and "earning its stripes" in the SMB market. For KIS, success in serving the small to medium size business market, comes down to getting to know the customer and finding the right solution from a core group of trusted vendors. "We find the customer's pain point," says
AntiPhishing Solutions: Prevent, Detect and Shut down Phish Attacks -- Fast by MarkMonitor
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The New Breed of Data Modeling Tools and Techniques: Driving Enterprise Application, Efficiency and Flexibility eGuide by Sybase, Inc.
This paper examines a new generation data modeling solution that allows corporations to collect, integrate and leverage metadata to automatically produce code for industry-leading database engines as well as application development. While many organizations view data modeling as a vital process for managing large quantities of data, poor data modeling practices can lead to
Multicast - Why Use It? by Global Knowledge
multiple receivers are required to get the same data at approximately the same time, multicast is a more efficient way of delivering data than unicast. When multiple receivers are required to get the same data at approximately the same time, multicast is a more efficient way of delivering data than unicast.

A unicast packet has a single source IP address and a single destination IP address. Data