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It turns out there are several so-called dirty little secrets that not every vendor will tell you ahead of time about archiving products. There are five categories of these "secrets": scalability, data protection, performance, data migration and energy efficiency. If you're in the market, you need to read this first.
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Customers of data archive systems, along with many others within the industry--including evaluators/editors and market analysts--are often unaware of some important limitations on data archiving solutions--in particular, content-addressable storage archives.
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The iSuppli research firm is now trimming its worldwide semiconductor revenue forecast for 2008, citing plummeting prices for DRAM memory chips and a possible economic slowdown due to the financial crisis on Wall Street. While revenue from processors might decrease throughout the rest of the year, which could hurt Intel, AMD, Samsung and other companies, iSuppli analysts remain confident that sales of desktops and notebooks could help close the gap and soften the impact of the financial crisis.
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Security vendors Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, Secure Computing and Sophos have acquired many companies in 2008, consolidating the security market amid an economic downturn. Symantec acquired MessageLabs, SwapDrive, AppStream and Vontu; McAfee acquired Reconnex and Secure Computing; Secure Computing acquired Securify; Sophos acquired Utimaco; CA acquired IDFocus; and Trend Micro acquired Identum and Provilla. Here's a rundown of these significant security acquisitions.
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Micron Technology, one of the world's largest producers of memory chips, is shutting down its NAND flash memory business that it co-owned with Intel. Micron will also cut 15 percent of its worldwide work force. The closing of the NAND flash memory plant comes as Micron, Intel and other chip memory makers are struggling with the falling prices of DRAM and NAND memory.
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Sequoia Capital is one of the first venture capital firms to issue a strict advisory warning to both startups and established companies in their portfolios to trim expenses, cut ancillary jobs and contractors and tighten budget belts.
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IBM posted a stronger-than-expected preliminary quarterly profit and stood by its full-year outlook, defying worries that the financial crisis would hurt demand for its computer products and services. IBM shares, which had fallen 5.33 percent to close at $90.55 on the New York Stock Exchange, rose to $96 in after-hours trading. Shares of Dell rose nearly 2 percent, while shares of Oracle and Microsoft rose about 1 percent. Other major technology companies such as Intel and Hewlett-Packard Co were barely changed.
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Even in the volatile U.S. macroeconomy, EMC's prospects remain solid. After all, the volume of personal and business data continues to rocket skyward at 60 percent growth per year with little or no chance of a slowdown; all that information has to be stored somewhere. Despite the serious downturn, as the United States is experiencing now, enterprises are hesistant to cut down on storage budgets for that very reason.
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EMC didn't get to be the world's largest, most successful data storage company by standing pat. In fact, the huge corporation has swallowed no fewer than 40 other companies -- for their technology and their talent -- in the last five years. Here are some facts you probably didn't know about this remarkable organization.
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Researchers for the U.S. Department of Energy report developing ultrathin films that can be used to form superconductors. The films could lead to faster, more power-efficient electronics.
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Dell continues to refine its storage product line with a new disk-only backup/recovery system aimed at midmarket users. Setup and management of the "turnkey" system is automated so that any person who can use drop-down menus and a wizard can operate it, Dell's top storage executive says.
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Risk management, e-discovery, enterprise search, e-mail archiving, and secure and managed file transfers might all beat hard times in a recession or economic downturn in the wake of the Wall Street financial crisis. Risk management, e-discovery, enterprise search, e-mail archiving, and
secure and managed file transfers are all positioned for a boom as the business and financial sector call on their unique services more than ever.
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E-discovery providers stand to gain from the Wall Street financial crisis, as potential customers such as investors, shareholders and pension funds prepare to pursue or defend lawsuits. E-discovery firms such as Kazeon, Autonomy, Clearwell Systems, Attenex, Symantec, Seagate Technology's MetaLINCS, Iron Mountain's Stratify, LexisNexis, Recommind and some other smaller companies are in good standing to gain business from what many expect to be a surge in litigation surrounding the Wall Street financial crisis.
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Because they are providing exactly the right services at exactly the right time, enterprises in certain subsectors of IT are beginning to get busy helping clean up the Wall Street/Main Street financial debacle. Companies in e-discovery, archiving, enterprise search, risk management and secure file transfers are among those "lucky" ones.
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Deutsche Telekom says it reported the theft of names, addresses, cell phone numbers, e-mail addresses and dates of birth of millions of mobile phone customers in 2006 and found no evidence the information was abused. German government investigators are analyzing potential danger from the data leak.
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The Maxtor Central Axis NAS device from Seagate shows promise, particularly for small businesses. However, there are issues with the storage management and backup software of the Seagate product that need to be negotiated.
Jungle Disk gives the Amazon S3 storage service a solid front end for the online storage and backup needs of enterprises. The product works with systems running Windows, Linux and OS X.
Review: Toshiba's USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive puts as much as 200GB of data in a pocket-sized form factor, providing a good backup and storage solution for SMBs.
Review: It's possible to plug the FreeAgent Go into any Windows system and have immediate access to the files and applications stored within the device without installing or leaving anything on the host system.
While innovative, Bio-NetGuard is hindered by its immaturity and lack of support.
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