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Data Deduplication: Two Methods By Kenneth Hess | Article Published January 21, 2010 There are two types of data deduplication, both of which can help your enterprise lower its data storage needs. Which method is right for your company? Tags: data, data center, deduplication, storage management, Storage Oracle Snaps up Silver Creek Systems By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 04, 2010 Oracle adds to ever-expanding empire with the acquisition of the Colorado-based developer of data quality and automated data mastering software. Tags: database, Oracle, data, database management, data archiving IBM: Manage Data Like Cash By Alex Goldman | Article Published December 10, 2009 IBM challenged business leaders, students, and professors to start thinking about data as an asset to be tracked and managed systematically. Tags: data, services, IBM, analytics, medical Saving Money with Solid State Drives By Drew Robb | Article Published November 24, 2009 SSDs may cost a fortune, but used properly, they can actually save money in enterprise storage arrays. Tags: data, IT, Enterprise, Storage The Agony and Ecstasy of RAID By Scott Alan Miller | Article Published October 05, 2009 Datacenters that include RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) face considerable risks – but those risks can be managed. Tags: data, backup, RAID, disk failure, Storage Netbooks Zooming Ahead of Laptops By Andy Patrizio | Article Published September 01, 2009 Who buys a full-size notebook anymore? Netbook sales are healthy despite -- or perhaps because of -- the recession. Tags: data, Microsoft, IT, netbooks, laptops Why IT Operations is Like an Action TV Series By Nir Livni | Article Published August 26, 2009 Just as on TV, crisis arrives in the datacenter and in the heat of action you need the right tools. Tags: database, data, server, IT, datacenter Software Development and The War on Muda By Bill Curtis | Article Published July 17, 2009 A huge problem in development is the need to rework, a concern that grows worse as the workload increases. Tags: data, software, development, programmers, IT Behind Today's Falling IT Salary Levels By James Maguire | Article Published July 10, 2009 Overall, IT salaries are down, but some tech skills continue to be in demand. Tags: data, IT Jobs/Salary, IT salary, outsourcing, IT career SQL Server Re-indexing Tips By Denny Cherry | Article Published February 02, 2009 Defragment or rebuild? This guide will help you decide and assist you in developing a database maintenance plan that balances performance, uptime and ease of management. Tags: data, Microsoft, server, IT, Enterprise Exploring Office 2007: Outlining a Worksheet in Excel 2007 By Helen Bradley | Article Published January 30, 2009 Our latest Exploring Office 2007 article illustrates how you can summarize important data in your Excel 2007 worksheets and reduce the data to more manageable levels with the ultra-efficient outline tool. Tags: data, IT, SAN, Cell, display Tip: BlackBerry - How to Wipe It Clean By Amy Mayer | Article Published January 12, 2009 Wiping a BlackBerry will reset it to the default settings it shipped with—clearing all user files and additional applications. It is a smart thing to do whenever you’re about to part ways with a smartphone. Tags: security, data, Blackberry, IT, RIM Wiping Disks With DBAN By Juliet Kemp | Article Published December 24, 2008 Tip of the Trade: Deleting old data isn't enough, you need to make it irretrievable. DBAN is a downloadable and self-contained boot disk that wipes disks -- fully and securely. Tags: security, data, IT, data security Excel 101: Create Worksheets and Charts By Helen Bradley | Article Published December 22, 2008 Helen Bradley introduces the basics of creating a worksheet and chart in Microsoft Excel. Tags: data, Microsoft, vertical, IT, cable Magic Tricks With the Sysreq Key By Juliet Kemp | Article Published December 10, 2008 Tip of the Trade: Remember the Sysreq key? It's in the same spot it's always been. Get reacquainted with it, and rediscover all the useful things it can do. Tags: Linux, data, IT, data loss My Three Worst Experiences in Software Development By Eric Spiegel | Article Published December 10, 2008 Over the course of twenty years as a developer, the low points were pretty low indeed. What’s your worst experience as a developer? Tags: data, software, management, IT, software developer Link or Embed: How To Add an Excel Chart to a Word Doc By Helen Bradley | Article Published December 03, 2008 Microsoft maven Helen Bradley explains how to place an object from one Office application inside of another. Tags: data, Microsoft, IT, Office, international A Recovery Plan for a Superbad Superblock By Juliet Kemp | Article Published November 26, 2008 Tip of the Trade: Learn how to recover your filesystem after a "bad superblock" error. Tags: Linux, data, IT, backup, fixes Microsoft Access: Customize Forms and Reports By Helen Bradley | Article Published November 12, 2008 Our Microsoft application guru Helen Bradley explains how to make Access database forms and reports more functional and attractive. Tags: data, Microsoft, IT, international, control Synch Up With Rsynch for Quick-Restore Backup By Juliet Kemp | Article Published November 05, 2008 Offsite backup and historical backup have their place, and their limitations. When it comes to rapid access to backed-up data in the event of a major disk crash, an instant slot-in replacement is needed, and rsync is well set for the task. Tags: PHP, data, server, IT, backup Working with Even More Functions in Excel By Helen Bradley | Article Published October 29, 2008 Helen Bradley shows how to unleash the power of functions in Excel spreadsheets to increase your efficiency. Tags: PHP, data, image, IT, Cell SQL Server How To: Transaction Log Maintenance for Painless Data Recovery By Susan Sales Harkins | Article Published October 13, 2008 Learn how executing frequent backups and maintaining healthy transaction logs in SQL Server leads to quick recovery. Failing to do so can mean having to re-enter a lot of data. Tags: database, data, server, IT, update GOP Laptop Stolen After Missouri Break-in By Richard Adhikari | Article Published October 08, 2008 Political dirty tricks afoot in Missouri? Tags: security, data, IT, Dell, InternetNews.com LDAP Master Server Problems By Juliet Kemp | Article Published October 08, 2008 Tip of the Trade: Finding and fixing master server issues isn't always easy, especially when the slave servers seem to be working fine. With careful searching, ldapsearch handily resolves issues. Tags: data, server, software, IT, servers Monitoring Network Traffic With IPTraf By Juliet Kemp | Article Published September 25, 2008 Tip of the Trade: Check out the traffic passing through your machine with this useful and easy-to-use ncurses-based app. Tags: data, DNS, control, traffic, protocols Build a Solid Virtual Foundation By Amy Newman | Article Published September 19, 2008 Virtually Speaking: LIVE From VMworld--Good hardware is a fundamental component of an effective virtualization deployment. Quantifying ROI and other benefits is often critical to getting the hardware. Tags: Windows, data, virtualization, IT, servers OpenOffice.org Tips and Tricks: Customization, PDFs, and Smart Image Management By Eric Geier | Article Published September 17, 2008 This tutorial offers more tips and tricks on transitioning to OpenOffice.org (OOo). Discover OOo options you may want to change, learn about the PDF exporting feature and how to overcome two vexing issues you may encounter when working with images. Tags: data, IT, Office, display, documents How the Blogosphere Killed the Press Conference By Mike Elgan | Article Published September 09, 2008 The Internet – including the Twitosphere – has made announcing information to groups of reporters gathered in a room an obsolete process. Tags: data, IT, government, technology, media rsnapshot: rsync-Based Filesystem Snapshot By Juliet Kemp | Article Published August 27, 2008 Tip of the Trade: Snapshot filesystems may be great, but migrating to a new filesystem is a major deal. If you're not up for it, rsnapshot makes achieving snapshot-like functionality a snap. Tags: data, IT, Unix, backup Tip of the Trade: Nagios Plugins By Juliet Kemp | Article Published August 20, 2008 Nagios is set up to use plugins to do the actual work of checking services. From cron-apt to check_jabber and more, here are some to get you started. Tags: database, data, services, server, software Disaster Recovery and Continuity Planning for the Database Administrator - Part 1 By Kevin Medlin | Article Published August 18, 2008 The fundamentals of making databases an integral and manageable part of your disaster recovery planning. Tags: data, IT, servers, Enterprise, Storage Go Green (Really Green) With Your Hard Drive By Lauren Simonds | Article Published July 31, 2008 Bamboo: The choice of Panda bears and…hard drives? Fabrik may be the first company to use actual greens in its SimpleTech [re]Drive. Tags: data, support, IT, media, Storage Top SSD Performance Comes at a Price By Judy Mottl | Article Published July 25, 2008 Texas Memory Systems debuts a RAM-based product that's big and powerful, but definitely not cheap. Tags: data, IT, technology, InternetNews.com, Storage Notes to a Young Software Developer By Sara Chipps | Article Published July 21, 2008 A professional five years in gives some career advice to those who are just getting started. Tags: developer, data, programming, IT, corporate Let's Solve Our National Identity Crisis By Mike Elgan | Article Published July 02, 2008 Because we don't move forward with a comprehensive, protected ID system, we've instead ended up with a third-rate, insecure system based on social security cards and government agencies collecting data without our knowledge or permission. Tags: authentication, security, Google, data, IT Sir Tim Offers A Glimpse Of The Web's Future By Chris Nerney | Article Published June 17, 2008 Sir Tim Offers A Glimpse Of The Web's Future Tags: data, Web, semantic Web, Linked Data, Berners-Lee The Knowledge Drain By Chris Nerney | Article Published June 05, 2008 The Knowledge Drain Tags: data, knowledge management, CIO Update Let the Machine Do the Learning By Jennifer Zaino | Article Published May 30, 2008 Discovering, understanding, and exploiting structured and unstructured data needs to be automated, argues an upcoming speaker at the LinkedData Planet Conference. Tags: W3C, data, IT, acquisitions, semantic Tip: Troubleshooting a Frozen iPhone By Philip Graitcer | Article Published April 28, 2008 What to do when your iPhone won't respond to finger taps, responds slowly, or just doesn't work like it did a few days ago. Tags: data, iPhone, IT, media, cable iPass Offers Worldwide Hotspot Access to SMBs and Consumers By Gerry Blackwell | Article Published April 03, 2008 Until this week, iPass only provided access to its high-speed Wi-Fi service to enterprise customers. Now, there is a pay-as-you-go model that is perfect for small business and consumer users. Tags: browsers, video, data, services, consumer, software, support, IT, browser, marketing, HP, international, VoIP, technical support HP Aims at the Middle With New Servers By Dan Muse | Article Published April 02, 2008 Business is booming for companies with between 100 and 999 employees, according to HP, and today's server and Linux announcements are designed just for those mid-sized businesses. Tags: Linux, Oracle, Windows, security, data, search, services, Microsoft, server, software, management, support, SMB, IT, Intel, browser, Red Hat, research, smartphone, Mac, HP, servers, Office, Novell, technology, desktop, handhelds, Storage HP Expands Midrange Hardware, Software Offerings By Andy Patrizio | Article Published April 01, 2008 New servers and prepackaged configurations of CRM and Linux software aim to help make IT a profit driver for smaller shops. Tags: Linux, Oracle, data, server, software, support, networking, IT, HP, InternetNews.com, Storage Tip of the Trade: psad By Carla Schroder | Article Published April 01, 2008 Turbo-charge your intrusion detection with psad, the port scan attack detector. Tags: open source, Linux, data, server, IT 3Leaf Lands Intel License For CPU Virtualization By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published March 31, 2008 With both Intel and AMD on board, 3Leaf is ready to pursue mainframe-style provisioning for the x86 server world. Tags: data, search, server, support, networking, virtualization, IT, Intel, datacenter, HP, servers, AMD, InternetNews.com, motherboard More Enterprises Buy Into Storage Virtualization By Judy Mottl | Article Published March 29, 2008 Consolidation, disaster recovery factors in technology adoption growth, according to a new study. Tags: data, search, server, IBM, virtualization, SMB, IT, research, HP, servers, InternetNews.com, Storage Enterprise Unix Roundup: Oracle Breaks Out ClusterWare By Brian Proffitt | Article Published March 28, 2008 Unbreakable Linux has seemed rather unexciting on the enterprise scene. A new offering from Oracle may change that. Tags: open source, Linux, Oracle, data, software, support, IT, Red Hat, Larry Ellison Review: Propel Personal Bandwidth Manager By Joseph Moran | Article Published March 28, 2008 Are you making the most of your Internet connection? Propel Personal Bandwidth Manager can show how you're using it and whether bandwidth is in short supply, but it does have its issues. Tags: .NET, video, Windows, Google, data, search, Microsoft, software, management, wireless, IT, Vista, Intel, Dell, Cisco, media, voice, VoIP, e-Mail, desktop A Small Business Guide to Network Attached Storage By Drew Robb | Article Published March 28, 2008 Strapped for storage? It might be time to consider a dedicated spare room for all your business bits and bytes. Our guide covers the gamut from affordable to high-powered network-attached storage options. Tags: Windows, security, data, server, software, management, support, networking, IT, marketing, Mac, Office, international, desktop, Storage Oracle Expands Its Linux Base By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published March 27, 2008 Oracle claims that it continues to pick up users for its Linux offering and now is set to add new clustering capabilities to the mix. Tags: open source, Linux, Oracle, data, software, support, IT, marketing, HP, InternetNews.com AT&T Introduces Business in a Box By Jeff Goldman | Article Published March 27, 2008 AT&T's new IP communications solution is targeted at small and medium businesses with 15 to 50 users. Tags: data, services, support, IT, Mac, voice, VoIP, telecommunications, PBX Data Backup Review: Backup My Info By Gerry Blackwell | Article Published March 26, 2008 Lots of companies sell online data backup services, sos what makes one better than the others? Backup My Info might cost more, but we found the extra money is well worth the investment. Tags: video, Windows, data, services, Microsoft, software, support, IT, Office, e-Mail, technical support, Storage Has Storage Hit Its Inflection Point? By Judy Mottl | Article Published March 26, 2008 Atrato's spinning disk array offers performance at quite a price. Tags: data, software, virtualization, IT, HP, media, InternetNews.com, standards, Storage Can You Spy BI? By Tim Scannell | Article Published March 25, 2008 Business Intelligence is all the rage. Too bad it's all over the dashboard on use and usability. Tags: Oracle, data, search, software, IBM, IT, Intel, HP, InternetNews.com Creating a Contacts Database in OpenOffice By Carla Schroder | Article Published March 24, 2008 The steps for setting up any mail-merge document in OpenOffice are easy; the one potential challenge is creating your contacts database in the first place. But the good news is Base can import data from most other databases, spreadsheets, text-delimited files, and email address books. Tags: MySQL, Linux, Oracle, data, IT |
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