Data Center

Fri, November 20, 2009 - Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good. Microsoft, predictably, doesn't think so. Otherwise, Al Gore offered his opinion on the role supercomputers can play to quell climate change, and for the first time we can recollect there were not one, but two, cat-related IT stories that caught our attention.

Tue, November 17, 2009 - A big shot of stimulus money awarded last month is sure to accelerate the transformation of the U.S. power grid into a massive network capturing data about much of what we do inside our homes. But will we trust this new "smart" grid with our data?

Thu, October 29, 2009 - Many of us were shocked last week that a company as prominent as Danger, Inc. could make such a rookie mistake by losing the data of T-Mobile's Sidekick customers. As a system administrator, if there is one thing you absolutely have to get right, it's backups. Here are six ways to botch them.

Mon, October 05, 2009 - You know that feeling you get when you realize you forgot to do something important? That's how you'll feel if you overlook something during the e-discovery process when your company is involved in legal proceedings.

Thu, September 24, 2009 - In the past few months, the dream of the digital nomad lifestyle has really taken flight. You know when major newspapers pick up on a trend, it's reaching the mainstream -- something that Computerworld's own Mike Elgan has been predicting for some time.

Thu, July 23, 2009 - Portable hard drives have been around for a while, but some recent ones include very easy-to-use automatic backup features, giving mobile workers no excuses for not backing up their systems.

Fri, July 17, 2009 - A change in custody for your data can create compliance issues.

Sun, July 12, 2009 - The sad state of storage management might create an opportunity for cloud storage to serve as a secondary or, more likely, tertiary tier of storage, says James Damoulakis.

Mon, June 01, 2009 - Data Robotics Corporation thinks highly of its Drobo units. It calls them "the world's first data robot." It calls its technology "beyond RAID." I like the product, but I think maybe Data Robotics is a little full of itself.

Sun, May 10, 2009 - Make users an IT asset and feed their recommendations and social behaviors back into your systems.