Dan Ragle

Information Lifecycle Management products often focus on the management of specific silos of information within your organization. Multiple products, for example, will assist you in the automated archiving and E-discovery of your E-mail messages based on policies you define; while other tiered-storage products will allow you to shuffle your must-save data to and from various […]

Hammer Storage (a division of Bell Microproducts) this week introduced their Z-series line of storage gear for SMBs or corporate workgroups. The disk enclosures plug into the network and provide block-level storage to Windows or (later this year) Red Hat Linux machines. Sounds kind of like a small SAN, you say? Sure; except that the […]

When we go to a palm reader we expect to be told things such as how long our life will be, what type of spouse we should seek, and the winning numbers for next week’s lottery. These, and many other useful tidbits of information–we are told–reside within the intricate detailed lines present on our palms; […]

To improve data query performance, many DBAs implement data caches–summarized and/or specifically extracted data tables that are periodically refreshed from the raw transactional information–that allow BI analysts to receive quicker reponses to their queries than they would if they were forced to go directly to the main transactional DBs themselves. A potential problem with this […]