George Crump

/images/stories/70×50/bug_knowledgecenter_70x70_%282%29.jpg In these cost-conscious times, CIOs have increasingly been feeling the pressure to either cut their IT budget or to keep it flat. Overall, IT budgets are tightening across all industries lately. Some are flat as compared to last year, and some are being reduced. If they are growing at all, it is only a […]

/images/stories/70×50/bug_knowledgecenter_70x70_%282%29.jpgE-mail systems in general, and Microsoft Exchange in particular, have moved well beyond being an important application in today’s enterprise. Messaging is now a mission-critical application for most enterprises–as important as a dial tone when it comes to communication. As a result, Microsoft Exchange is storing much more than the text of messages; it stores […]

/images/stories/70×50/bug_knowledgecenter_70x70_(2).jpgGreening the data center is a marathon that will take years to complete, if we ever truly will. A recent EPA report on data centers found that data centers consumed 1.5 percent of the nation’s energy. This is also a global problem. Consumption, worldwide, will increase by almost 57 percent from now until 2030. Demand […]

/images/stories/70×50/bug_knowledgecenter_70x70_%282%29.jpg It started innocently enough. Users were struggling with backing up to tape. Disk prices, especially with SATA (Serial ATA) technology, were going down while capacities were going up. Users started using SATA technology as a fast cache to tape to help improve backup speeds. Also, if they had to recover from the disk, it […]

/images/stories/70×50/bug_knowledgecenter_70x70_%282%29.jpg Lately, as infrastructure virtualization companies are making a bigger and bigger splash in the data center, we’ve begun to see inaccurate information being spread by competing technologies-mostly those that use a proprietary stack. I’m a supporter of infrastructure virtualization trends regardless of the company involved (as seen in products, for example, that include but […]