A global enterprise virtualization survey released today confirms that virtualization is becoming stronger and stronger in the enterprise, with server virtualization leading the wave.
Critics thought it was over the top when Amazon.com Inc. expanded from books into music in 1998. When the Web retailer let competitors start selling things alongside its own inventory in 2000, they said Amazon had gone nuts.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/01/2008
After a more than week-long crash of a server hosting two of its inexpensive Web-based services, Strongspace and BingoDisk, Joyent is taking steps to address customer complaints following the outages -- and taking both applications open source.
With Service Pack 1 out, admins should know that there are a few tricks to updating clustered Exchange 2007 servers the right way. Here's a guide.
For the past 10 days, Sausalito, Calif.-based online document and storage hosting company Joyent struggled to get its online secure document collaboration service, Strongspace, back online.
Green IT. Everyone wants it or is paying lip service about wanting it.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 01/18/2008
JKDefrag 3.62 is a step above Windows' own defrag tool. Even better: your IT budget won't take a hit.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/16/2008
The loss or theft of personal data soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isn't expected to turn around anytime soon.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/02/2008
Microsoft is facing its first crisis with Windows Home Server, which is causing file corruption when used with certain programs -- most of them from Microsoft itself.
Sanbolic bolsters Microsoft's virtualization game plan with Melio clustered file system and LaScala Volume Manager.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/20/2007
Plus: settling with crooks; malware as a service; more.
Your back-up plan probably relies on something that's been around for ages: tapes. Here's what you need to keep in mind when managing this old but reliable technology.
- By Eric Johnson
- 11/07/2007
Windows 2008's nifty disk-manipulation features includes this cool disk-shrinking tool that has nothing to do with cold water.
- By Greg Shields
- 11/05/2007
Computer maker Dell said Monday it has agreed to buy EqualLogic Inc., which makes storage network systems, for $1.4 billion in cash.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/05/2007
How much data can you lose? How long can you go without your data? The answers will help you develop a sound backup strategy.
- By Eric Johnson
- 10/24/2007
Marking perhaps the most significant BI acquisitions to date, SAP plans to buy Business Objects, the largest supplier of BI software, for $6.7 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/08/2007
New! Welcome to this new series of columns for working with SQL Server. First, let's talk backups.
- By Eric Johnson
- 10/08/2007
A recently disclosed fraud involving hundreds of thousands of people on the Monster.com jobs Web site reveals the perils of leaving detailed personal information online, security analysts say.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/23/2007
Feedback on a recent column on Vista backups
- By Greg Shields
- 07/16/2007
Don't be like this writer, with a dead drive and nowhere to store.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 07/11/2007