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Article | 22/05/2009 Amazon S3 lets customers ship big data
Amazon's S3 cloud storage service has a new option, called AWS Import/Export, for quickly uploading large amounts of information to its data centers. ...
Article | 21/05/2009 Adventures in e-mail marketing
A writer's group I belong to wants to put on a conference this summer. Since I've written about two of the leading e-mail marketing services, Constant...
Article | 21/05/2009 Lost hard drive and other government data blunders
The U.S. government says it's lost - yes, lost - an entire hard drive full of sensitive data. The external drive, stored at the U.S. National Archives...
Article | 18/05/2009 FAQ: Cloud computing, demystified
Everyone in the IT industry is talking about cloud computing, but there is still confusion about what the cloud is, how it should be used and what pro...
Article | 18/05/2009 End of financial year bargains: Four great NAS devices for SMBs
Network-attached storage (NAS) devices have improved immensely over the past few years, with constantly increasing storage capacities, features and ea...
Article | 16/05/2009 Google outage lesson: Don't get stuck in a cloud
Google has apologized for yesterday's service outage that left 14 percent of its user base without Google's wide variety of online services for a few ...
Article | 15/05/2009 What happens to the data when an online storage site closes?
Online storage sites, the toast of the Internet circa 2006, are shutting down in droves, putting the data and images of their users in jeopardy.
Article | 15/05/2009 Enter the cloud
Cloud computing is a reality, and it's a force that IT professionals need to quickly come to terms with. The economic and social motivation for the cl...
Article | 14/05/2009 End of financial year bargains: Top 5 portable hard drives
With the end of the financial year creeping closer, it is time to ensure you have the space to backup delicate information. If you are partial to digi...
Article | 8/05/2009 Oracle will stay in the hardware business, Ellison says
Oracle plans to stay in the hardware business following its planned US$7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, CEO Larry Ellison has said, adding...
Article | 11/05/2009 SSD performance -- is a slowdown inevitable?
The recent revelation that Intel Corp.'s consumer-class solid-state disk (SSD) drives suffer from fragmentation that can cause a significant performan...
Article | 7/05/2009 57 amazing things you didn't know your tech could do!
We've worked long and hard to come up with the best tips and tricks for your PCs, smartphones, cameras, game controllers, music players, and the Web. ...
Article | 7/05/2009 Why IT should start throwing data away
It can be a storage nightmare: Given expanding regulatory requirements and the key role that electronic records now play in lawsuits, some enterprises...
Article | 28/11/2008 Moving a Data Center Into the Cloud
A year in which the economics of the travel and hotel industries are so bad that business analysts keep making comparisons to the months immediately f...
Article | 21/04/2009 The top 7 encrypted hard drives
By now, we're all getting desensitised to horror stories about missing hard drives full of private information. When you hear that another 20,000 cust...
Article | 22/04/2009 11 impractical and amusing USB Drives
Flash memory drives that are more about looks than portability.
Article | 22/04/2009 VMware vSphere: Does It Solve IT's Biggest Worries About Cloud?
For all the hype about cloud computing in the enterprise—hype that Gartner believes is now nearing its peak—IT professionals continue to tell cloud-re...
Article | 20/04/2009 Desktop Virtualization and Licensing: IT Wary of Gotchas
CIO Roxanne Reynolds-Lair of The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising wanted to bring both Macs and Windows to her college's students, admini...
Article | 15/04/2009 Disk Defrag Help From Hassle-Free PC
For the last couple months I've been troubleshooting a vexing problem on my new quad-core HP desktop: Roughly once per week, the machine would start r...
Article | 17/04/2009 Cloud Mea Culpa: Nick Carr Was Right and I Was Wrong
Nick Carr was right and I was wrong. Sort of, anyway.<br/>

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