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Report: Time Capsule sales strong, not hurting AirPort
Time Capsule and AirPort Extreme have hit the top of their respective categories for U.S. retail sales. Read more...

Big China quake takes out mobile network in Chengdu

Multiple short outages can add up to major data center problems

Shuttle Columbia's hard drive data recovered from crash site

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

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Would the bird flu kill the Internet, too?
One scenario of a potential bird flu pandemic finds that overuse by employees working at home to avoid infection could bring down the Internet. But others say such a case is unlikely, since steps could be taken to reroute traffic, among other things.

Supply chain execs share disaster-planning techniques
Sturdy IT systems, strong lines of communication with trading partners, and training exercises can help businesses prepare for management during a disaster, according to a panel of supply chain experts at the Retail Systems show held in Chicago this spring.

Disaster recovery high on SAN user's list
Fidelity National Financial replaced an aging EMC SAN with one from Hitachi Data Systems, which provides virtualization capabilities as well as replication and mirroring.

Affordable disaster recovery
Disaster recovery is for everyone, but we all tend to make it much more complicated -- and expensive -- than necessary, says columnist Steve Duplessie.

Oracle Bringing Fusion Plan to Users, Exec Says
Q&A: John Wookey, senior vice president of applications development at Oracle, said the firm plans to ship pieces of its next-generation Fusion applications to users this year.

How not to improve backup performance
We all hate false tech advertising. And it's just as prevalent in backup as any other IT category. As good as LTO4 tape is, tape is difficult to keep streaming data to. In most designs, disk should be the initial backup target with tape technology on the back end.

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.

Specialists have retrieved about 99% of the data on a disk drive on board the crashed space shuttle Columbia. Don't miss the photographs of the recovered drive.
These big ideas were supposed to revolutionize technology, but they never actually appeared. In a few cases, you'll be glad they didn't.
Nearly 20 years after the first Internet worm, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols takes stock of the malware/anti-malware landscape and spotlights how the two sides are approaching the battle.
Though some thought it was released too soon, Mac OS X 10.5 has matured into a solid operating system, says reviewer Michael DeAgonia.
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Four years from now, the IT field will be a vastly different place. Will you be ready?
The New Foundation of Storage: Xiotech's Intelligent Storage Element
(Source: Xiotech) The underlying elements of data storage remain more or less the same and have been unable to keep pace with changing business requirements. Xiotech offers a fresh approach with its Intelligent Storage Element: A storage foundation that sets new standards for reliability, performance, and scalability.
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