Drew Robb

Blogging has come out of nowhere over the past year as a force of change in the business world. But most companies have yet to come to terms with what to do with it. As a result, their reactions to its use are all over the map. ”Some ignore blogs, some fire employees who have […]

On the heels of Xsan and Xserve RAID, which have expanded Apple’s push into the storage industry, another company is about to unveil the industry’s first SATA-based RAID technology for the PowerMac G5. Applied Micro Circuits Corp. in Sunnyvale, CA, developed its Serial ATA RAID with a 2 TB capacity along with technology expected to […]

While dual-core processors made a big splash in the chip market last year, industry observers say multi-core efforts are well on their way. ”Enterprises have no real choice about adopting dual-core any more than they had about adopting higher frequencies in the past,” says Gordon Haff, an analyst at Illuminata Inc., an IT analyst firm […]

Continuous Data Protection (CDP) is getting a lot of coverage in the storage industry press as the latest and greatest. Instead of backing up files once a week or once a day, they can be protected continuously throughout the day. Fine in theory, but most small businesses struggle to afford a tape library and backup […]

Storage managers have been barraged by a wave of claims on the subject of data retention (see Can Data Ever Be Deleted?). The argument is that every single piece of data has to be retained, since otherwise you could get into severe trouble in the future. And, of course, with disk now being so cheap, […]

Inspired by Enron and other data cover-up fiascos, legislative bodies around the country appear to be taking the words of Joni Mitchell to heart: Don’t it always seem to goThat you don’t know what you’ve gotTill it’s gone. In this case, though, they are thinking less of big yellow taxis and more about making it […]

Businesspeople always insist that time is money. Physicists, on the other hand, assert that the real relationship lies between time and space. But, as it turns out, they both are right. As organizations find new ways to use Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to cut distances traveled, they wind up saving both time and money. In […]

Elmer Fudd has been trying to keep that ”wascally wabbit” Bugs Bunny out of his carrot patch since before Remington Rand built the first UNIVAC. But, when you start talking about how to keep those wascally hackers out of your wi-fi network, you’ll soon find yourself sounding like Mr. Fudd himself. First, there was WAP, […]

While India gets all the attention in offshore outsourcing, Russia has expanded steadily over the last few years and is rapidly becoming a major destination for American offshore software development business. Analysts predict that the country will capture a 5 percent share of North American and Western European offshore development dollars by 2007. “The Russian […]

The 1980s and ’90s saw an explosion of business applications to digitize the way companies do business. Software developers built Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) suites by the score to eliminate paper-based administrative processes, and provide management with accurate data. Firms like SAP, Siebel and Oracle thrived […]