In both the server and storage industries, the potential for business in serving small to medium businesses can be substantial. For many vendors, it is uncharted territory and an appreciation of the pain points of the SMB is a key action item.
April, 2007
Virtualization has long been the domain of large enterprises. Beginning with time-sharing technology on massive mainframes, virtualization required large data centers and larger IT budgets. The advent of high-performance workstations and servers based on Windows, Linux and similar technologies brought the benefits of virtualization to small- and mid-size businesses that might have only a limited IT staff and an even more limited budget.
April 5, 2007
If you’re like most IT managers, you’re probably being told by management that you need to do more with less — expand your IT capabilities and infrastructure and do it with reduced funds, staff and hardware. It sounds like a paradox, but using emerging technologies you can do more with less — it’s just a question of knowing how to put the puzzle together. The puzzle is called virtualization.
December 7, 2006
Recovering from a server disaster only intensifies these anxieties. A server that is down generally impacts on more than just the applications it runs. A failed web server can bring online sales to a grinding halt. A faulty file and print server can turn a billing department into a vast paper wasteland while clerks are unable to print bills. And a downed SQL server can make almost any job into a nightmare, regardless of what the employee does.
November, 2005
One of the most popular applications for disk partitioning software is the ability to create a new partition for a second (or third or fourth) operating system.
August 19, 2004
One way to significantly reduce TCO of your storage investment is to optimize your applications so that one action can accomplish multiple tasks.
July 4, 2004
When the IT manager or user initiates imaging of the hard disk drive containing the system volume, the filter driver flushes the file system mounted to that volume; then all the operations on the system volume are temporarily frozen.
January, 2003
