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Information lifecycle management (ILM) and disaster recovery will be important issues in 2004, according to storage industry analysts. In 2004, Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst at the Taneja Group, predicted, “Customers will see ILM for what it is—using the right platform to process, move and protect data, based upon its value to the company.” […]

Notebook drives continue to be one of the most active parts of the storage market, analysts and vendors said. The supply of 2.5-inch hard drives will continue to fall short of demand in 2004, according to Pete Andreeyev, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies vice president and general manager for the Asia-Pacific region. Rising demand for notebooks […]

Britain-based spam-tracker Spamhaus.org lists UUNet as the ISP allowing the most spammers onto its network, based on the Internet addresses they are using. The group lists 128 spammers with accounts on UUNet-controlled networks, although some of the listings were for the same organization operating under multiple names. Of the 128, 16 are among the most […]

New York consulting firm Basex blamed unsolicited e-mail for nearly $20 billion in lost time and expenses worldwide. Spam within the enterprise can cost between $600 and $1,000 per year for every user. Basex listed lost productivity, clogged e-mail systems, bandwidth, storage costs, user support and anti-spam software among the costs of spam for corporations. […]

Symantec Corp. has been granted a judgment totaling $3 million in a suit against a software firm accused of selling counterfeit copies of Symantec software. The suit that Symantec brought against Maryland Internet Marketing in April claims trademark infringement, copyright infringement and false advertising. Maryland Internet Marketing was using spam e-mail campaigns to sell the […]

Cyber extortionists are shaking down office workers, threatening to delete computer files or install pornographic images on their work PCs unless they pay a ransom, according to security experts. “They prey on the nice secretary who wouldnt do anything wrong. When she gets one of these e-mails she thinks Oh, my goodness what am I […]

Oracle poured buckets of cash into hyping grid technology during the past few months. While 10g features are getting rave reviews, Oracle users who upgrade in 2004 will be looking to ease DBA workloads rather than chasing this “enterprise-immature” technology. Thats just one educated guess on whats in store for Oracle in the coming year. […]

A few of the winners of 2003: SAP AGs robust sales and stock price; Microsofts extensive list of updates, debuts (Microsoft CRM) and betas; PeopleSoft President and CEO Craig Conway. A few of the losers: Sobig, Slammer, Blaster and—surprise, surprise—Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Read more of SearchDatabases picks for the years stars and stumbles at […]

Many developers run into triggers that dont see mutating ORA-04091 table owner.table_name errors in Oracle. Often, its caused by trigger code that looks at or manipulates data within the table from which the trigger is being called or invoked. Read the full story at Database Journal.

There are various ways of using global variables in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 DTS Designer tasks. This article, one in a series, looks into their role in exchanging data between packages, using features built into the Execute Package task. It also explains the purpose of DTS Package Workflow. Read the full story at Database Journal.

Etelos Systems Inc. uses Linux and open source software, but Ahmad Baitalmal its vice-president of Information Technology, just doesnt see enough value add to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to justify the cost increase over the older, soon to be retired, Red Hat Linux family. For the rest of his concerns, click to the full story […]

MaXXan Systems Inc., last week announced a storage system packaging its intelligent fabric systems with the availability of FalconStors IPStor 4.0 software suite. The combo will enable storage on-demand as well as provide storage services for disaster recovery, file serving, data protection and storage consolidation. “Instead of buying a variety of systems from a number […]