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The new method of optimizing IT takes a more holistic view of problems and leverages innovations in technologies and services to increase efficiency and get better return on existing assets. This in turn enables IT management to combine the budgets of multiple projects to provide better purchasing power, and through innovations such as virtualization or cloud computing, provide data services at commodity prices.

User calls this help desk pilot fish, saying that he has deleted a file and needs it back. But that's about all he knows about it.

The road to SQL started with Dr. E.F. Codd's paper, "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks", published in Communications of the ACM in June 1970.

Pilot fish is fed up with manually dealing with backup problems -- resetting the daemons database and replacing the tape in the autoloader before he can rerun a failed backup. Fortunately, it looks like there's a simple solution.

A single storage frame can suck down more than 2kW of power, adding to the power and cooling loads in you data center. These three steps can help you go green - and save money.

So goodbye then, Scott McNealy. Your company, Sun Microsystems, broke the mold and made more than $200B over 28 years. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers pay tribute to a departing leader. Not to mention a Haiti charity infographic...
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As more organizations move to disk-based backup with deduplication, the glaring absence of high availability (HA) in many of today’s offerings is becoming apparent.

The latest record for the value of pi, all 2.7-trillion digits of it, was set by a software engineer working with a home PC running Red Hat Fedora Linux.

According to Google, it's Ext4, and that's why they're moving their servers to it.

Too many organizations are still using outdated processes despite updated needs. The good news for backup administrators is that the actual technology for backing up data has advanced dramatically over the last few years.

Looking back to years past makes me think about how far we have come in a number of ways, but from a technical perspective, how much of the past is actually circling around into the present.

Wow, looks like Apple is planning a cable coup -- or is that a satellite slay? Steve Jobs is said to be in talks with TV networks for a subscription-based iTunes TV store. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder the meaning of disintermediation and inflection points. Not to mention Oscar D'León sings about Twitter...
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This county government pilot fish has the job of maintaining the data that generates property-tax bills. That includes the task of copying the backups to new media every seven years -- all 360 tapes.

Unless you have had your head buried in the sand lately, you have by now heard of the term cloud computing. Cloud computing can be defined as service based computing, where a company buys software as a service or storage as a service (SaaS) from an internal or external provider.

Solid-state drives recently hit the 1-terabyte mark with the release of the $3,300 OCZ Colossus 1TB SSD. Obviously, drives at this price point are not aimed at the masses. Yet, from a historical perspective, the Colossus is remarkably cheap. It's easy to forget that just a few short years ago, neither mainstream SSDs nor 1TB drives existed at any price. It's also important to remember that smaller, affordable SSDs are available today and represent an incredible value.