The down side of automated backups

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	The down side of automated backups The last place you would expect to hear anything negative about backing up files, is a blog on Defensive Computing. Yet here we are. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Growing Your Business Without a Crystal Ball Learn how an upgrade at Opus Interactive allows scalable storage growth with 40 percent less upfront cost. Read Now! In this Issue Five open source technologies for 2012 China wants Western Digital to address monopoly concerns Tech That Should Be on Your Company's Radar for 2012 Apple's purchase of Anobit would give it a leg up on rivals Dropbox optimizes app for Android 4.0 Chris Poelker: Five questions to ask about datacenter optimization HP unveils consumer PCs and display ahead of CES Ben Golub: Clouds, neurosis and Joni Mitchell Most believe U.S. won't become fully paperless WHITE PAPER: Symantec E-Discovery - Experts Tell All In this eGuide, Computerworld and sister publications CIO, Network World, and IT World examine some of the hottest issues around e-discovery and archiving today. Read on to discover how some organizations are approaching data-management challenges, and the tools that are available to help. View Now Five open source technologies for 2012 Next year, if all goes according to plan, Red Hat will become the first open source software company to generate more than $1 billion a year in revenue. It will be a watershed moment for the open source community, who have long seen their approach of community-based development as a viable, even superior, alternative to traditional notions of how software should be written. Read More China wants Western Digital to address monopoly concerns Western Digital's planned acquisition of Hitachi's hard drive business may have hit a snag: China's anti-monopoly regulators want the company to address concerns about the buyout. Read More Tech That Should Be on Your Company's Radar for 2012 There are a variety of new technologies advancing in 2012 that you should investigate, if you aren't already doing so, to give your small business a leg up on the competition. These recent technologies are beginning to be widely adopted and will continue to drive business forward. Read More Apple's purchase of Anobit would give it a leg up on rivals Having been the largest consumer of flash memory, Apple will gain a leg up on competitors with its purchase of Anobit, since the deal will enable the company to use the cheapest chips in its products while maintaining a high level of resilience and performance. Read More WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid Disk v. Tape: A Look at Backup Trends in Government The U.S. Government has been the largest user of tape-based backup systems since the 1970s. Most agencies have begun to deploy disk storage and disk-based backup because of reliability and security concerns. Read more Dropbox optimizes app for Android 4.0 Cloud storage company Dropbox has added offline storage and bulk upload to an redesigned version of its Android application, which has been optimized for Android 4.0. Read More Chris Poelker: Five questions to ask about datacenter optimization In a down market, many organizations look to reduce costs. One tried and true method in cost reduction is to review existing IT operational procedures in order to determine where adding efficiencies may reduce operational budget requirements. Read More HP unveils consumer PCs and display ahead of CES Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday launched the company's first 27-inch all-in-one PC, its most powerful HP Pavilion PC to date, and a monitor that connects to and charges some of its laptops using USB. Read More Ben Golub: Clouds, neurosis and Joni Mitchell There's an old saying that the difference between neurosis and psychosis is that neurotics build castles in the clouds and psychotics move in. What then does that say about those of us who try to build storage farms in the cloud? Are we afflicted with some special form of insanity? Read More Most believe U.S. won't become fully paperless Survey finds most Americans don't foresee an all-electronic U.S. society. Read More
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