Shuttle Columbia's hard drive data recovered from crash site
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Rackspace unveils cloud storage service

Forrester: IT must prove need for disaster recovery tools

Mozy launches online backup tool for Apple Macs

Backing up Microsoft Exchange -- with Yahoo's rival Zimbra software

Judge orders White House to resolve e-mail backup 'ambiguity'

Thieves pilfer backup tapes holding 2M medical records

UConn bookstore sells drive holding personal data

HP's hosted storage service down for almost a week

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Opinion: The ugly side of disaster recovery
There are a thousand criteria to account for when selecting a disaster recovery site, but one company found itself falling back on moving its data center in a couple of SUVs every time a hurricane threatened its offices.

Opinion: The IT ballet -- redundancy, efficiency, recoverability
In striving for efficiency, it is important to also take steps to ensure that we do not inadvertently increase risk by eliminating redundancy.

Michael Israel
The Six Flags CIO talks about running a seasonal, outdoor business that literally moves, keeping the lines short and paying the roller coaster's electric bill.

Opinion: Promise for protecting laptops
Dealing with laptop protection is arguably the least favorite job for IT managers, and indications are that laptop sales will surpass desktop sales, so the situation is likely to only worsen. But upcoming chip-level antitheft technology and remote outsourced backup services promise relief.

Disaster planning, mix-and-match style
Why waste your time and money worrying about something that may never happen? Instead, figure out what type of outage is most likely to hit your geographic area, and plan for that.

Performance showdown: Flash drives versus hard disk drives
So have you ever wondered if it's really worth it to plunk down the extra $1,300 for an SSD-equipped MacBook Air? Or have you been tempted to swap the current mechanical hard drive out of your portable and slide one of these high-tech bad boys inside? I did.

Opinion: Overcoming the stigma of a lousy job title
So I was less than enthused when I was assigned the task of backup administration as part of my initial job responsibilities. At the time, I didn't see much of a future in backup administration so my main focus was getting promoted.

Opinion: Criteria for choosing data protection products has changed
The problem with products such as EMC's NetWorker, Symantec's NetBackup and IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager, is that their origins go back almost two decades to when enterprises protected far fewer servers, the primary backup target was tape and enterprises had time to set up, configure and manage these products. Today's data centers are very different.

Apple's Time Capsule makes wireless backups a snap
Time Capsule serves as a fast 802.11n Wi-Fi router and uses Leopard's Time Machine app to perform automatic wireless backups without any muss or fuss.

Hard drive disaster: A cautionary tale
A columnist learns the hard way that you should always verify your backups.

Mistakes such as putting down co-workers or burning bridges when you resign are surefire ways to darken your career prospects. Here's how to avoid them Hype and promises abound in the IT world, but these six breakthroughs really will change your life, says author and former IT manager John Brandon. Baby boomers are retiring and taking their knowledge with them. Why do so few in IT seem to care? Computerworld editors share stories of their first PCs, including some classics and some real clunkers -- then we ask readers to share their early-PC tales.

Reviews, analyses, how-tos, visual tours, hot issues and predictions about Microsoft's new OS.

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Four years from now, the IT field will be a vastly different place. Will you be ready?

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