Steve Apiki

You may have heard the term “Web 2.0” used a lot lately — even on this Web site — and wondered whether Al Gore’s been tinkering with the Internet again. Fear not, he’s left Silicon Valley and Washington behind to shake things up in Hollywood. Web 2.0is the name given to a collection of trends […]

Setting up and maintaining a reliable defense around your network takes hardware, software, diligence and a good measure of security expertise. That’s a tall order for a small business. But that’s exactly what it takes to track constantly evolving threats, to monitor network activity and to maintain the collection of tools required to combat attacks. […]

Continuous Data Protection (CDP), as the cutting edge of always essential but normally staid backup technology, had a big ’05. Witness the entry of EMC, HP, IBM, Microsoft and Symantec into a space previously populated by startups, a string of funding and product announcements from those startups, and the establishment of a new SNIA CDP […]

In the first part of a series on regulatory compliance and storage issues, we examine the far-reaching effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. No government or agency regulation has refocused the energies of IT administrators and storage professionals like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Broad in its reach, short on implementation specifics, and bristling with teeth, the act […]