Your database may be full of valuable information, but its difficult to realize this value if your data is incomplete, inconsistently formatted, inaccurate or unreadable by your applications. Data cleansing identifies and corrects these problems. It is a major project that requires a great deal of expertise and technical resources. Before doing it on your […]
Last year, the theft of a Wells Fargo contractors laptop—with the banking records of more than 200,000 customers—made some enterprises think twice about storing valuable corporate data on portable PCs. Maxspeeds solution is a simple one: A laptop without a hard drive. Or more precisely, a thin-client system in a portable form factor. With its […]
Where do the servers responsibilities end and the clients responsibilities begin? This question in corporate computing applies to backup systems as well. If your organization accumulates a lot of corporate data on individual systems, you may want to forget traditional tape backup and move your solution to the client side. Optical storage, online backup services, […]
In view of Big Blues ardent support for Linux, it is interesting to see that the IBM TotalStorage NAS 100 runs on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server with Server Appliance Kit (SAK). As one of two SAK-based devices in this roundup (the Dell PowerVault 725N is the other), the TotalStorage is less appliance-like than the Ateonix, […]