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Huawei Symantec Enters The United States Storage and Security Market

October 13, 2010 By Stephen Leave a Comment

Surprise! Huawei Symantec has arrived in the United States, ready to take on the midrange storage and network security market with a line of devices that have proven their worth in the international market for three years. I sat down with the company's management at Storage Networking World and quizzed them on their plans and aspirations for growth. Introducing Huawei … [Read more...] about Huawei Symantec Enters The United States Storage and Security Market

Setting Up a Multi-Server Web Hosting Environment

June 26, 2009 By Stephen 7 Comments

The last few weeks have been tough on my web servers. The release of iPhone OS 3.0 tripled my site traffic overnight as folks investigate the new Exchange integration features, and traffic to IT commentary site, Gestalt IT, which I also host, has been growing rapidly. Plus, Google just refreshed PageRank again, sending even more visitors my way. I had switched from Dreamhost … [Read more...] about Setting Up a Multi-Server Web Hosting Environment

Ten-Year Trend: Mobility

March 11, 2009 By Stephen 2 Comments

Dave Hitz over at NetApp poses a very interesting question: What is the ten-year trend in information technology that we are currently building to? He supplies these historical examples: 1982-1992: A computer on every (business) desk 1990s: Networking all those computers He then goes on to suggest three ten-year trends that we might currently be living … [Read more...] about Ten-Year Trend: Mobility

Compression, Encryption, Deduplication, and Replication: Strange Bedfellows

February 5, 2009 By Stephen 14 Comments

One of the great ironies of storage technology is the inverse relationship between efficiency and security: Adding performance or reducing storage requirements almost always results in reducing the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of a system. Many of the advances in capacity utilization put into production over the last few years rely on deduplication of data. … [Read more...] about Compression, Encryption, Deduplication, and Replication: Strange Bedfellows

Physical Security for the Road Warrior

November 30, 2008 By Stephen 2 Comments

This is part of an ongoing series of longer articles I am posting on Sundays. In this digital age, it is easy to overlook the critical element of physical security. Put simply, it is often far more efficient to steal or gain access to a physical object like a laptop or flash drive than to break into a computer system. And despite the sanitary and controlled environments many … [Read more...] about Physical Security for the Road Warrior

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