Matthew Sarrel

Many businesses have multiple locations with server requirements. Examples include retail and restaurant chains, any large enterprise with smaller local offices, and local service centers. Although each scenario may involve different hardware and software to meet individual business needs, they all have certain things in common, such as the need to reduce deployment and ongoing […]

Regulatory compliance and business continuity demands are putting increasing pressure on enterprises to find ways to store the rapidly growing amount of data that is being generated. One technology businesses are turning to is data deduplication. Data deduplication removes duplicate chunks of information before it is stored; there is a huge variation in the definition […]

XioTechs Emprise 7000 Storage Package Offers Easy-to-Manage SAN by Matthew D. Sarrel Test Rack XioTech’s portable shockproof test rack consisted of an Emprise 7000 system and Emprise 5000 system, two Dell 1950 servers, two Cisco Systems 9124 Fibre Channel switches, power management and an Ethernet switch mounted in a single 22U portable shock rack that […]

It’s no secret that the enterprise storage market is growing, fueled by insatiable storage demands, and this big problem just can’t be ignored in order to pinch pennies this year. Most companies need to address storage issues even if they aren’t spending on anything else. So once you make your storage spend, how do you […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: BigFix DSS SAM BigFix offers an outstanding patch management solution that includes helpful software inventory capabilities, such as licensing, metering and cost analysis. The only real sticking point is the awkward installation process. No Title The adventure begins with a trip to the BigFix Web site to download the software and documentation. […]

How many different software packages, licenses, versions and installation locations are there within your enterprise? If you can even start to answer, then chances are you’re ahead of the game. Various studies have shown that companies spend roughly 40 percent of their IT budgets on software, and about 30 percent of that is wasted because […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-through: ForeScout CounterACT 100 By Matthew D. Sarrel No Title One of the ForeScout CounterACT 100’s greatest strengths is its Web-based assets portal, which allows authorized users to search on a variety of criteria and then dive deeper to uncover relationships between devices and networks. No Title Establishing a NAC policy allows you […]

Enterprises looking for greater protection of their networks often look to network access control technology to evaluate endpoint security status and enforce which systems should be allowed on the network. Typically, a security policy is built and software agents-or in the case of ForeScout’s CounterACT 100, a Web browser with Java-and network scans interrogate clients […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Data Domain OpenStorage No Title Data Domain equipment can be configured to send daily reports back to the mother ship. The reports are reviewed to determine if the unit is functioning properly. No Title Although this is a mundane example, it illustrates the process of data deduplication. The first time we copied […]

Data deduplication promises to use enterprise storage more efficiently, reducing the need to buy as much media-tape or disk-and as a result save space, power, and cooling in the data center. Unfortunately, it is also a term that can have almost as many different meanings as there are specific technologies applied to achieve it. Broadly, […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: ContentWatch ContentProtect 300 Security Appliance by Matthew D. Sarrel No Title The home page shows important notifications and provides quick links to common Getting Started tasks. The management interface is broken out into Report, Manage and Admin on the top left. No Title The CP 300’s real-time monitor displays bandwidth utilization in […]