Jennifer Schiff

It may be an exaggeration to say there is a war being waged for the hearts and minds — and purchase orders — of enterprise customers looking for SAN solutions, but listening to the debate between Fibre Channel supporters and fans of iSCSI, it’s probably fair to call it a heated battle (see iSCSI Rides […]

The National Library of Scotland (NLS), the largest library in Scotland and a leading research institution, recently embarked on a mission to create a Trusted Digital Repository to preserve materials digitally and allow users to access that content online. As part of the £1.8 million project, the library allocated up to £900,000 to cover data […]

Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons has been in the information business for 200 years, publishing scientific, technical and medical journals; encyclopedias, books and online products; professional and consumer books, including the popular “For Dummies” series; and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students. As you can imagine, storing all of that information electronically […]

Integrated Systems Corp. (ISCorp) provides a wide range of on-demand applications and data processing solutions to customers in the financial services, healthcare and education markets. And much of the 10 terabytes of data that flows through ISCorp’s systems and gets stored each week is sensitive. So it was imperative to company Executive Vice President and […]

Every week, if not more often, there appears another story in the news exposing a security breach at some company or organization — the loss, theft or inadvertent exposure of sensitive material such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers and other financial and personal data. In fact, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, since […]

James Wonder, the director of online technology at the American Institute of Physics (AIP), hates tape. He hates that every year he needs to refresh his tapes, because he doesn’t want to have any bit or byte errors in the event he needs to recover critical data. But migrating all of AIP’s data to disk […]

Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to calculate more than one quadrillion floating point operations per second…. Look, up in the labs of Cray and IBM: It’s high-speed supercomputing on a scale never before seen! Fighting to keep America competitive in the world supercomputing market, the High Productivity Computing Systems […]

With Windows Storage Server continuing to win over small and mid-size customers — with a 53 percent unit share of the 2005 worldwide NAS and unified storage market, according to Gartner — and Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 making inroads into the enterprise space, Microsoft appears to be the vendor to beat in the […]

Even as the price of storage continues to come down, the amount of data enterprises need to store and back up continues to go up. But what if there was an enterprise solution that could free up storage space by a factor of 10 to 1 or even 20 to 1, making disk-based backup even […]

Red states versus blue. Coke versus Pepsi. Tape versus disk. These classic battles for market supremacy may never end. But in the case of tape versus disk, some vendors believe it doesn’t have to be an either/or decision. In fact, data tape pioneer Imation has been carefully hedging its bets by developing removable data storage […]

New federal rules will take effect next month requiring corporations to produce documents in legal cases or face stiff penalties, raising yet another regulatory compliance issue for IT departments. On December 1, several amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure regarding a company’s duty to preserve and produce electronically stored information (ESI) in the […]

Around the globe, scientists are using blindingly fast, incredibly powerful supercomputers to model and predict important environmental events, such as global warming, the paths of hurricanes and the motion of earthquakes, and to envision more fuel-efficient cars and planes, ensure nuclear stockpile safety and develop new sources of energy. All of these simulations require the […]