Using a larger set of brains to define needs and develop technology solutions can create more flexible results that better meet the needs of staff and members.

For centuries, the encyclopedia was viewed as the single most reliable reference source for just about everything. Encyclopedia articles were written, edited, vetted, edited some...]]>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Greening+a+data+center.-a0192588946WEDNESDAY, 05 MARCH 2008 08:33 ADMINISTRATOR

In a hyper-competitive marketplace, businesses today face greater pressures than ever before to control operating costs' both to improve the bottom line and to appease stakeholders. Added to these demands is the necessity for environmental stewardship in the face of growing strains. Gone are the days when businesses could look the other way;...]]>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Case+study%3a+enhance+technology%27%e2%84%a2s+RAID+solution+selected+by+Medical...-a0192588944Founded in 1944, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) is dedicated to conducting basic research to benefit society by expanding the knowledge of the basic biological processes fundamental to life. As a leading independent medical research institute, it has over 300 scientific staff members, including some of the world'™s foremost immunologists committed to pinpointing the cause of human...]]>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Case+study%3a+universal+imaging+utility+cuts+anchorage+Int%27%e2%84%a2+Airport+IT...-a0192588943Organization Overview

Serving more than five million passengers in 2005, the Anchorage International Airport is a major contributor to the local Anchorage economy and one of its top employers. It is ranked as the top U.S. airport for landed weight of cargo aircraft and third in the world in the category of cargo throughput. On a weekly basis, more than 650 wide-body cargo flights land at...]]>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Business+agility--a+TAC+strategic+imperative.-a0192588941ClearStory Systems Partners with TAC to Deploy ActiveMedia

 7 continents. 80 countries. More than 500 locations. 5,000+ employees And growing. 

So states TAC, a world leader in building automation systems, where Jeff Kosiorek, senior manager of corporate marketing and communications, is charged with providing the sales and marketing infrastructure to fuel that growth...]]>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/2008+forecast%3a+master+data+management+%22taking+the+MDM+train.-a0192588938Master Data Management (MDM) adoption is like a long freight train' forward-thinking companies (like the first car) have moved long-past their initial starting point into enterprise-level MDM solutions, while lagging companies (like the last car still at the station) are figuring out how to get started on their MDM journey. An MDM technology should be flexible enough to keep the first car...]]>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/2008+forecast%3a+SAS+takes+storage%27%e2%84%a2s+center+stage.-a0192588937'SATA today, SAS tomorrow' was the storage industry's mantra in early 2007. SATA was happily satisfying most storage application requirements and 3G SAS was only just beginning to enter the lexicon. But as the year progressed, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), SCSI's serial replacement technology, evolved to become last year's principal storage trend as it joined forces with SATA to begin...]]>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/2008%3a+the+year+of+the+storage+vendor.-a0192588936Chinese astrology tells us that 2008 is the year of the rat, but I'm going to take it one step further and say it's the year of the 'pack rat,' which is a more appropriate term for the storage industry these days.

All of the compliance talk 'SOX, COBIT, COSO, HIPAA, Section 404' has overwhelmed organizations of all sizes and has made them more accountable for the data they collect and...]]>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/2008+outlook%3a+storage+and+the+midmarket.-a0192588935Midsized organizations need to justify every penny invested in IT. Challenged to do more with less, they typically do not have the financial resources their enterprise competitors have to invest in IT projects and staff. Midsized companies do not have the budget to upgrade every year so solutions that they purchase today must address current and future needs. These technology solutions must...]]>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/2008+forecast%3a+if+you+build+it%2c+they+will+come.-a0192588932What would you store on a one-terabyte hard drive?

Every so often milestones are announced that put into perspective how far we've come and the direction we're heading' they may even give us a peek into the future. The milestone announcement of the first digital camera for instance, reminded us of how much photography has evolved and it put film developers and traditional camera makers...]]>Tue, 1 Jan 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Industrial-grade+storage+for+SMBs.-a0192588947
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It'[TM]s long been the case that large enterprises cannot operate without their digital information assets. Whether its sales records, designs, video clips, security logs, or experimental results, the amount of data has become so prodigious that dealing with it electronically is the only practical option. Electronic data is so...]]>Tue, 1 Jan 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Data+recovery+completes+disaster+recovery.-a0192588945
We all know, computers have taken over the main stage in our digital lifestyles' professional and personal. We use computers for so many tasks' from business to finance to storing family memories' that the amount of data we are storing is growing exponentially. According to research firms IDC and Gartner, this trend will continue to grow since PC shipments are up 13 percent over last...]]>Tue, 1 Jan 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Can+your+computer+keep+a+secret+%22Part+III%3a+next+generation+encrypting...-a0192588942
Can Your Computer Keep a Secret 'Data Protection Methods are NOT Created Equal, we discussed the pros and cons of each of these options and showed their relative level of security, with encryption being the most secure approach by far. In the second article, Can Your Computer Keep a Secret" Software Solutions for Encrypting Data at Rest, we focused on encryption, and took a close look at...]]>Tue, 1 Jan 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Biometrics%3a+everywhere+you+are.-a0192588940
Convenient, secure data access is facing ever-escalating challenges. For over 90 million people, applications of fingerprint biometric technology are proving an effective measure for protecting valuable stored information, particularly in mobile and banking applications, to identify who may or may not access it. Added benefits for users of this now heavily-adopted technology are not...]]>Tue, 1 Jan 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Adding+value+to+network+monitoring+with+rapid+problem+identification%27...-a0192588939
Network management solutions have evolved throughout the last 20 years' expanding from basic toolsets designed to manage unreliable devices in a traditional hub-and-spoke environment to more sophisticated flow-collector products capable of providing granular context data about the applications and traffic that traverse the WAN links. Depending on their industry and resources, companies...]]>Tue, 1 Jan 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/2008+forecast%3a+media+asset+management+in+the+video+world.-a0192588934
Each year, CIOs and IT managers everywhere ponder the technology initiatives that will shape their businesses in the coming year(s). In 2008, organizations will undoubtedly look at how they are managing (or not managing) their video assets. The use of video in the enterprise has grown astronomically over the past few years, creating a logistical nightmare for many organizations....]]>Tue, 1 Jan 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/2008+forecast%3a+mapping+your+data+center+caching+strategy.-a0192588933
Caching has long been deployed to optimize performance of systems and applications. It is a proven concept with implementations ranging from registers on a CPU, to system memory, to wide area data services. Cache enhances existing resources by temporarily storing frequently used data for faster delivery and processing. Traditionally, cache has been a scarce resource requiring selective...]]>Tue, 1 Jan 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/2008+forecast%3a+creating+a+dynamic+IT+infrastructure+with+grid+storage.-a0192588931
Today's IT organization is getting squeezed from all directions. To support more data, storage environments continue to grow and become more complex to manage. Tighter controls on data access and management, increased compliance regulations, e-discovery, and corporate governance add to the complexity. Businesses are demanding improved services like higher availability levels. IT is also...]]>Tue, 1 Jan 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/2007+in+review%3a+scaling+business+analytics+applications.-a0192588930
The growing reliance on business analytics to improve strategic operational decision making and increase an organization's competitive advantage is driving an explosive market. IDC estimates that the overall market for business analytics development tools and packaged applications will top $20 billion for the year 2007. Furthermore, companies are aiming to expand the reach of their...]]>Tue, 1 Jan 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/2007+year+in+review%3a+reducing+the+challenges+of+overwhelming+data...-a0192588929
Exponentially increasing data growth, extremely competitive global economies, and tightening compliance regulations across all industries made the challenge of data management more overwhelming than ever in 2007. In addition, there is a shift in the type of data being generated. IDC projects by 2010, 80% of storage will be for secondary data' data including backup, archive, and...]]>Tue, 1 Jan 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/2007+year+in+review%3a+mid-market+storage+management+strategy+trends.-a0192588928
Mid-market storage management was affected by several key trends in 2007, including:

1. Continued exponential growth in the volume of information that mid-market companies must manage, protect and keep accessible,

2. Further dispersion of that information across heterogeneous and physically distributed computing infrastructure,

3. Increasing pressure to comply...]]>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Managing+data+at+the+edge%3a+taming+the+%27wild+frontier%27+of+remote+or...-a0168214620One of the last things an IT administrator wants to hear is that "the network" is running slow. Seen as a barometer of the overall quality of IT services, fast access to application and file data has become such a user requirement in most enterprise organizations that even a few seconds' delay in opening a file or application can be enough to generate new calls into support.

I'm edgy, I can't concentrate on the movie, I spilled my drink, my date thinks I'm pre-occupied and is already writing me into her "He's just not into you book."

Can you live this way? Do you want to spend 50% of you time stepping out of that movie to take a call, yell at your vendor sales rep and hope that something can get fixed again this weekend? Do you...]]>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Real+opportunities+from+virtual+tape+libraries.-a0168214612The virtual tape library market is pioneer territory for storage vendors and resellers should keep abreast of the technology to capitalize on significant profit opportunities in this growing market.

According to recent IDC forecasts, the worldwide virtual tape library (VTL) market will double to $1.4 billion by 2011. Resellers are already reporting a strong increase in demand and...]]>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/NeoPath+Networks+file+virtualization+predictions+for+2007.-a0168214611As 2006 came to a close, the executive staff at NeoPath Networks, a provider of network file management (NFM) solutions, started looking ahead to 2007 and discussing trends in the field of file virtualization. As they talked about industry developments they anticipate, they formulated five predictions for the file virtualization field in 2007.