Much to the approval of privacy advocates everywhere, Yahoo! has moved to cut its search record retention time from 13 to 3 months, at the same time urging Google to lead the way towards a policy of zero retention of search data.
Enterprise data protection specialist Sepaton has released the results of a new IT budget survey, saying that it shows enterprises are planning to maintain or increase data protection budgets in 2009 despite the economic slowdown.
Both Microsoft and Mozilla are pushing out emergency patches for browsers this week in the wake of serious flaws surfacing in Internet Explorer and Firefox.
In the face of exponentially expanding storage requirements, Symantec is telling its customers to “stop buying storage”, saying that its Veritas CommandCentral storage resource management (SRM) suite can help put off increasing capacity.
IP telephony use is on the rise despite, or perhaps because of, the economic crisis, with research firm Infonetics announcing tat IP phone shipments were up 25 percent in Q3, 2008, and doubling since Q2.
Storage area network (SAN) vendor Compellent has announced the availability of its Storage Centre Command Set for Windows Powershell, automating the management and recovery of data storage in enterprise environments.
Solid state disk (SSD) technology appears to be gaining speed by the day, with Hitachi becoming the latest to announce the general availability of flash storage devices or its Universal Storage Platform V and VM.
With one recent study finding that businesses are still focussed on sustainability despite the economic downturn, IDC has followed up with another study of the ‘greening’ of data centres, and has found that power management, automation and...
Like the recent declarations of those at the UN climate negotiations in Poznan, Poland, an IDC study has found continued support for sustainability initiatives despite the economic crisis.
VMware and HP have announced that they are expanding their strategic partnership to include the development of management software for manage mixed physical and virtual data centres.
