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NextAdvisor picks its top cloud storage services for consumers
Consumer and small business product review site NextAdvisor.com launched a new category, with reviews and comparisons of the best cloud storage...
Mozy releases 'Stash' file syncing service
Mozy released the beta of a new file synchronization service called Stash, which allows photos, videos or documents to be uploaded automatically to...
Six Reasons Small Businesses Need Virtualization
If you run a small or mid-sized business, server virtualization promises cost savngs and improved IT efficiency. To help ensure you understand the...
NetApp, Iron Mountain team up on medical archive service
NetApp is teaming up with Iron Mountain to offer its StorageGRID object storage software with two Iron Mountain medical data archiving services: the...
Virtual Machine cloud replication and restoration to boom
Over the next two years, about 30% of midsize businesses will be using a recovery in the cloud service aimed at replicating and restoring virtual...
5 hot tech projects to boost your IT career
Take the reins of any of these five forward-looking initiatives and become an IT hero in the eyes of upper management
At Houston Bank, Disaster Recovery Goes Virtual
Woodforest National Bank implements a replication system for its virtualized data center in the Gulf Coast
JetBlue supports iPhone -- as long as it's the employee's device
Over the past several years, JetBlue has transformed itself from a traditional IT infrastructure with multiple data centers run by its employees to...
Twitter suffers 1-hour outage
Twitter down, Twitter outage, Twitter crash, fail whale, Keynote Systems, Sharon Gaudin, tweet, tweet surge, New York Yankees lose, Detroit Tigers,...
2010's IT Companies to Watch: Where are they now?
A year later, we take a look at the progress made by 2010's 25 New IT Companies to Watch.
Red Cross comm team ready for disasters
While most businesses back up data and records as potential disasters approach, the American Red Cross has a communications and information systems...
Aging East Coast infrastructure a concern after quake
The earthquake that struck the East Coast on Tuesday should serve as a wake-up call about the frailty of our aging infrastructure, and it shoud stir...
Aging East Coast infrastructure a concern after quake
The earthquake that struck the East Coast on Tuesday should serve as a wake-up call about the frailty of our aging infrastructure, and it should stir...
Twitter, Facebook light up after East Coast quake
Just moments after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit the East Coast on Tuesday afternoon, Twitter and Facebook lit up with the news.
Disaster hits Japan's semiconductor demand
The March earthquake and disaster in Japan are still affecting the global semiconductor market and may continue to do so for months to come.
Verizon makes its satellite dishes available as standard service
Verizon is turning its 19 years of responding to hurricanes and disasters with ground-based mobile satellite technology into a standard service for...
Apple issues Lion disk disaster recovery tool
Apple has released a utility that builds a Lion recovery disk on a USB flash drive, giving users a way to restore their Macs if the machine's hard...
Barracuda doubles capacity of cloud storage, retains pricing
Barracuda Networks today announced it has doubled the amount of cloud storage capacity available to customers of its backup service, but it kept the...
Zurich lawsuit against Sony highlights cyber insurance shortcomings
A brewing legal dispute between Sony and one of its insurers over data breach liability claims highlights the challenges that companies can sometimes...
10 hard truths IT must learn to accept
Unsanctioned devices, compromised networks, downtime -- today's IT is all about embracing imperfections