it - "data storage"

A report by Cyber-Ark software suggesting that one in three IT workers snoops through personal electronic data has received quite a bit of attention in the blogosphere. Interestingly, most of the workers surveyed either snooped because they were disgruntled or simply because they could: The company...

The experimental phone network uses geo-tagged data, mobile social networking, and "virtual sticky notes" to send and receive real-time information.

Power Assure isn't shying away from taking on data center giants like HP, IBM and APC. The tiny Santa Clara, Calif. based company claims to slash power consumption, across all data centers, by 80 percent

The former SoftGrid software streams an application from a server in an organization's data center to a local PC as pieces of the application are needed.

Lazard Capital Markets analyst Daniel Amir issued a report noting that storage device maker Seagate is looking to acquire Intel's stake in flash memory manufacturer IM Flash Technologies.

Enterprise CIOs face mounting challenges that are hard and getting even harder. HP says it has a lifeline for these IT departments and leaders over the next five years by helping them to dramatically cut the size of IT budgets relative to the enterprises' total revenue. This allows a shift...

Protecting conversations and preventing data leaks. security appliance developer eSoft has updated its email gateway with the ability for users to spam-file or whitelist emails from any device, including a BlackBerry or smartphone. Previously, only Outlook users could train the gateway's Bayesian spam-filter.

Through managed requirements collaboration and the use of 'contracts' between the designers, testers, business leaders and IT operators, application lifecycle optimization has arrived, says Horowitz. Bringing more input and visibility into applications design, test and refinement, in a managed fashion, allows applications to better meet business goals, while also providing...

VKernel's Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer continuously monitors CPU, memory, and storage utilization trends in VMware ESX environments across hosts, clusters, and resource pools. By utilizing VKernel's quick-to-install virtual appliance model, users can eliminate current capacity bottlenecks and future ones through a simple, single-screen management dashboard. Users also now have detailed capacity information to effectively plan for the addition of new hosts, clusters, and resource pools. By customizing capacity thresholds, users can receive alerts via email and SNMP.

A common mandate in large organizations is to shrink the total number of data center sites in order to achieve new efficiencies and economies of scale. Rapid growth, globalization, mergers and acquisitions often necessitate physical data center relocations or consolidations. The ability to effectively analyze, plan and execute multi-site data center relocations or consolidations is vital to large enterprises. Attendees will learn how the ability to decouple server workloads from the underlying hardware and move them over the WAN between any physical or virtual infrastructure enables fast and easy server and data center relocation and consolidation. Topics will include rapidly provisioning new servers, running new and old data center sites in parallel, and the importance of testing.