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By Alan Stevens July 09, 2010
The backup market is no longer just about copying data from disk to tape and back again. Scalable disk-to-disk backup has become a prime requirement,...
By Alan Stevens July 06, 2010
Following months of beta testing, the latest incarnation of Microsoft’s massively popular Web-based collaboration platform, SharePoint 2010, has finally hit the streets. More than just...
By Alan Stevens June 22, 2010
Disk storage can be attached to a server in a couple of ways, either directly (internally or externally) or via a dedicated Storage Area Network...
By Alan Stevens June 17, 2010
Virtually synonymous with desktop productivity tools, Microsoft Office is not just the market leader, it’s the one product that nearly every user has on their...
By Alan Stevens June 10, 2010
Following a lengthy period of consolidation, the backup and recovery market is now dominated by a handful of vendors selling well-established products. Nearly all of...
By Alan Stevens May 18, 2010
Messaging and collaborative working are key applications in any business, but they don’t have to be hosted in-house with a growing number of cloud-based services...
By Alan Stevens May 07, 2010
When it comes to putting applications in the cloud, security is a prime candidate. Primarily because a hosted deployment addresses most, if not all, of...
By Alan Stevens April 30, 2010
Despite the ever falling cost of disk-based storage there’s still a healthy market for tape which continues to be used for backup and long term...
By Alan Stevens January 11, 2010
Virtualisation continues to grab the headlines, especially when it comes to servers and bare metal hypervisor technologies. It’s not all about hypervisors, however, with VMware...
By Alan Stevens December 23, 2009
With companies routinely equipping staff with easy access to the Web, it comes as little surprise to discover many abusing the facility and spending large...
By Alan Stevens December 16, 2009
It’s all too easy for companies looking for their own e-mail and collaboration server to fall into the trap of thinking it’s Exchange or nothing....
