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The Tipping Point in Going from Hybrid to Flash: Interview with Tegile Systems VP Rob Commins Part II

Hybrid and all_flash memory arrays are arguably the two hottest technologies in storage systems right now. However determining which of these two types of storage arrays is the right one for an organization’s environment is influenced by both cost and production application requirements. In this second installment of my interview series with Tegile System’s VP of Marketing, Rob Commins, we discuss what the tipping point is in going from hybrid to an all-flash memory storage array.

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The Long Term Viability of Virtualization Only Backup Software; Interview with Quest Software SVP Walter Angerer Part IV

As organizations virtualize more of their infrastructure, many face the question, “Use separate physical and virtual backup software products to protect these respective environments or consolidate on one backup platform?” Adding to the difficulty in making this decision is that virtualization_only backup software tends to release new features very quickly to keep up with user demands while having no roadmap to take on the protection of physical environments.

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Austin Convention Center Adds Tablets to Tool Belts on the Exhibit Floor

In this interview series with Austin Convention Center Database Administrator Jeff Moore, we are uncovering decision criteria for Apple iPad adoption and Mobile-first application development. Part 5 of this interview covers Mr. Moore’s views on with cloud applications impact on desktop users, tool belts with tablets and how the iPad helped the Austin Convention Center with their Gold LEED certification.

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Austin Convention Center Ditches Laptops and FTP for iPads and Cloud Application Storage

In this interview series with Austin Convention Center Database Administrator Jeff Moore, we are uncovering decision criteria for Apple iPad adoption and Mobile-first application development.
Part 3 of this interview covers Mr. Moore’s views on using Apple iPad with Virtual Private Networks (VPN), further information on security and multi-tenant cloud storage, exhibitor services workflow and why FTP is not the right solution for application file, synch and share.

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Austin Convention Center considers New iPad for Camera to Support Facility Incident Application

In this interview series with Austin Convention Center Database Administrator Jeff Moore, we are uncovering decision criteria for Apple iPad adoption and Mobile-first application development. Part 2 of this interview covers Mr. Moore’s views on the consideration of operations, exhibitor and attendee mobile applications, security concerns driving FileMaker infrastructure and how cloud application storage can act as a receiver of data sourced from FileMaker databases.

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Austin Convention Center chooses iPads over Android and Considers Cloud Storage for File Synch and Share

Enterprise organizations face the daily challenge of ever-growing needs with their traditional applications. Not only are these needs growing, but they are constantly changing as well, forcing companies to adapt by changing not only their tools but also their systems. Today, I’m talking with Austin Convention Center Database Administrator Jeff Moore about his role in the centers consideration of and adoption of Apple iPads and Mobile-first applications.

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SSD Optimization Techniques that Minimize MLC Flash Deficiencies – Interview Series Part II with WhipTail CTO Candelaria

Today is part 2 of an interview I recently did with WhipTail Technologies Chief Technology Officer, James Candelaria, an emerging provider of SSD storage solutions. In my last entry, he and I discussed one major roadblock to widespread enterprise SSD adoption: the performance penalty incurred by garbage collection. This time, we’ll look at how WhipTail optimizes SSD performance while minimizing the deficiencies of MLC flash.

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Disjointed Legal Counsel Seeking Help for Comprehensive Early Case Assessment

Enterprise and holistic investigation, as concepts and strategies, generate many questions, concerns and risks. Our investigator, legal and security community is made up of 50+ professionals. Our community helps develop working Investigation Playbooks to intersect pressing investigative issues. For example, our community collaborates with us to develop Investigation Playbooks to manage retention policy, business continuity and information security issues. Some of our community members includes KPMG, ARC Group NY and individuals, such as Steve Harper of Crucial Security and Randy Barr Chief Security Officer at WebEx.

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Bringing eDiscovery inside the firewall, DiscoverReady’s eDiscovery vision

This is delivered by marrying efficient resources, high-speed review applications and proactive project and process management. We also use higher level strategies, such as our Dynamic Data Analysis™ (a blending of statistical, conceptual and legal analysis), to both identify relevant documents as quickly and cost-effectively as possible, and to simultaneously reduce the total amount of data required to be reviewed.

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Determining when to dispose of data and reducing review costs

The legal (but somewhat impractical) issue is pretty straightforward here—what industry you’re in will determine the regulatory and legal requirements for you. Since relatively few industries are subjected to substantial regulatory/legal requirements for preservation, the question of retention of most records is, often, a balance between the benefit of end user access, aka knowledge management, contrasted against the burdens of data retention expense and potential legal production obligations.

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