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Top 10 Blogs on the DCIG website by Page Views for 2008

December 31, 2008

Being the last calendar day of 2008, I thought it only appropriate to take a moment and look back at the most viewed blog entries on the DCIG website for the past year. While some were topics that I expected to receive a lot of attention when the blog was posted, others were blog topics that essentially came out of nowhere to garner a large number of page views. To be honest, I never thought that entries on topics like cable management and cable labeling would resonate with readers but ended up capturing a couple of the top spots for 2008. Meanwhile topics like the FTC’s Red Flag Rules were so popular on DCIG’s web site that it led me to write columns that eventually were picked up by websites like Network World and BusinessWeek.

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Cisco Bows Out of Infiniband; Appliances Join the Virtual World; Notes from Day 2 at VMworld

September 17, 2008

Day 2 at VMworld has come and gone and probably my biggest regret was that I had to miss this morning’s keynote by VMware’s new CEO, Paul Maritz. In reading through some other blogs this evening about the event and assuming Storagezilla called it right, it was a doozey essentially declaring open war on other operating systems. In any case, my day was focused on catching up with a number of vendors to get some of the latest behind the scenes scoop in the storage world. In fact, as one walks into the exhibitor hall in VMworld, it is hard not to mistake this conference for a storage conference.

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Symantec doesn’t have an electronic discovery strategy

April 9, 2008

Business processes, like electronic discovery, offer defined metrics and quantitative impacts on organizations. Historically speaking, electronic discovery review budgets have been rising steadily; creating the need to improve review (better crushing power) or reduce data going into review (refined selection process). Moreover, the team at KVS/Symantec knew in 2005 that “Discovery Accelerator 1.0” was a stifled product; primarily designed to return email results for people, according to dates and keywords. At the time all the talk was around better “improving review,” but the market has been saying “early case assessment” since early 2007.

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Google’s gmail suffers from malicious archiving system

March 11, 2008

This situation peaked my interest because it was an email archiving product for gmail. Specifically, the application is an end user archiving product called g-archiver. The product works by accessing a users gmail.com mailbox account and copying all their email to a local device. In order to copy the email from gmail.com the product requires that a user input their username and password. (Note: Here is the URL to download the product – www.brothersoft.com/g-archiver-58027.html)

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Autonomy, Google and Microsoft battle for SaaS eMail Archiving

March 4, 2008

Autonomy/Zantaz, Microsoft/Fortiva and Google/Postini are three SaaS based archiving solutions you should evaluate if you are considering hosted email archiving and eDiscovery for Microsoft Exchange. Since Microsoft/Fortiva does not support Lotus Notes Domino, you should limit your research to Autonomy and Google if you also require Lotus Notes Domino support. Autonomy’s Zantaz was founded on the premise of SaaS archiving for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes Domino, whereas Google/Postini started offering it in 2006. Google acquired Postini in 2007 and added significant support and data center services to support their growing Enterprise customer base.

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The “Infinite” Challenge of ProStor Systems’ InfiniVault Archiving Appliance; Part 1 of 2

March 4, 2008

Infinite. That’s the number of files that the file system on ProStor Systems’ InfiniVault archiving appliance can theoretically support. The problem with InfiniVault supporting an infinite number of files is how does that work under real-world conditions and how does anyone verify that number in order to have some level of assurance that it holds up? In ProStor Systems case, verifying its claim is more important than in the case of most other disk vendors since its disk-based InfiniVault also supports infinite storage capacity.

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Archived Storage Market Forecast to Grow to $23 Billion by 2010; Interview with Plasmon CEO, Steven Murphy, Part 2 of 2

February 15, 2008

Steven: The global storage market is currently a $45 billion a year industry and it is anticipated to grow to $50 billion a year by 2010 with archived storage forecast to increase from $9 billion in 2007 to $23 billion in 2010. Of the data that is currently stored to disk, 80% of that data is fixed content data that is rarely accessed and can be preserved in archives. We offer companies a third tier of storage that looks and acts like disk, has the properties of tape, and uses policy based software to manage data retention and compliance. Companies are looking very closely at the benefits of the technology. Plasmon archive solutions with UDO meet long term retention requirements at a cost businesses need.

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