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InStock IT Weekly Newsletter For the week of 06-23-2008 (Vol 8, No 25) "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." Lou Holtz (1937 - ) Football Coach Quote
courtesy of www.focusedquotes.com The
IT Weekly Newsletter is a selection of information technology articles from 6-16-08
to 6-20-08 culled from 450+ on line industry sources
and compiled for Instock, Inc. by Promethean Data Solutions, Inc. These articles address
everyday issues involving storage, servers, networks, IT procurement and cost justification,
regulatory compliance and futures. You
will also find practical insights on moving, sharing, storing, protecting,
accessing, justifying, measuring and securing a company’s most valuable assets
- DATA and INFORMATION. Articles from the week of 6-16-08
to 6-20-08: Backup (2), CIO – CTO – CSO, Disaster
Recovery (2), Encryption, Operations (3), Outsourcing, Rabbit Sense, Security, Technology
(2) and Virtualization. IT Weekly Newsletter© Contents: (Follow the URLs or go to the
abstracts) #1 The weakest link Security Be Cautious about letting New iPhones into Your Company #2 At odds with cost reduction Operations Primary Storage and the Green Data Center #3 Coordinating the Three Stooges Disaster
Recovery #4 Understand their issues to address yours Backup Providing Managed Backup Services #5 Talk about a drop in
phishing schemes Technology http://www.darkreading.com/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=342&doc_id=155825 #6 Complex problems can be
easily expressed Operations Data Center Environment Basics http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/P3024/20p24/20p24.asp&wklydate=true #7 No one cares about Backups Backup The Essentials of Backup & Storage http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/P3024/21p24/21p24.asp&wklydate=true #8 Understand the basics Virtualization http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/P3024/22p24/22p24.asp&wklydate=true #9 Not easy and not a panacea Encryption Advantages vs. Drawbacks of Encryption http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/P3024/33p24/33p24.asp&wklydate=true #10 Answer twp questions Outsourcing #11 There are no guarantees CIO
– CTO – CSO http://www.esj.com/enterprise/article.aspx?EditorialsID=3190&pg=2 #12 An option that may not be
needed Operations #13 It’s the that time of the
year Technology: The Top Storage Trends at Midyear http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=156684&f_src=byteweekly #14 Planning for the unthinkable Disaster
Recovery Iowa Floods Forcing Firms to Race to Keep IT Afloat #15 Reminiscing Rabbit
Sense 15 Turning Points in Tech History http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/09/24FE-tech-turning-points_1.html To Access articles CTRL-left click on Title 1. Security: Computers have one dirty little secret that
no one talks about;
security is only good as the least protected device in the
network. That’s the big reason that
Gartner says Be Cautious about letting New iPhones into Your Company.
New devices don’t have the years of
security available at the outset…just be careful. ComputerWorld
(June 11, 2008) 2. Operations:
No matter how you define the problem one
thing is certain; power is not going to become less costly. One area that seems at odds is Primary Storage and the Green Data Center. There are three technologies that can be
implemented to mitigate a growing energy bill.
InfoStor (June 12, 2008) 3. Disaster Recovery: BU, DR and BCP can sometimes look like The
Three Stooges pointing to the right; like any disagreement cooperation is
required. If companies can learn How To Coordinate DR and BCP
then IT and Business can concentrate on their respective expertise without
looking over the fence. bMight.com (June
9, 2008) 4. Backup: The low man on the totem pole as to
excitement; that’s where the backup specialist resides until there is a
problem. This love, hate, worship
relationship is what is causing companies to look at outsourcing backup. Here is a look at companies Providing Managed Backup Services
and the issues they have to address; this will give you an idea of what
questions to ask. Search Storage Channel (June 3,
2008) 5. Technology: Wishing that Spam and Phishing would go away
didn’t cut it for PayPal. In I Shadow, the CISO of PayPal
describes the simple process that reduced PayPal phishing dramatically. What‘s key is that at one point PayPal
phishing was responsible for 70% of all schemes; now they aren’t in the top 10.
Dark Reading (June 10, 2008) 6. Operations: There are only five areas that need to be
addressed to understand Data Center Environment Basics. Like Neil Armstrong said about going to the
moon, there are only two problems ‘getting there’ and ‘getting back’ and you
need to get both right. Processor (June 13, 2008) 7. Backup:
No one cares about backups, but everyone cares deeply about
restores. Understanding The Essentials of Backup & Storage
will go along way towards making sure that an updated resume is not needed
after a recovery. Processor (June 13, 2008) 8. Virtualization: Along with encryption and thin provisioning
understanding Virtualization Fundamentals
can transform a data center of any size. Processor
(June 13, 2008) 9. Encryption: There are no free lunches and encryption is
no different. Regardless of what
encryption vendors tell you; make sure you clearly understand the Advantages vs. Drawbacks of Encryption
before you sign up: encryption is rocket science. Processor
(June 13, 2008) 10. Outsourcing: There are only two reasons to outsource; once
you have addressed these two questions and decide to proceed, these Ten Best Practices will insure
that a decision is based on data and not emotions. Search
CIO (June 16, 2008) 11. CIO – CTO – CSO: As Clint Eastwood said “If you want a
guarantee, buy a toaster”; in life there is no such thing as risk free. The Key to Risk Management is
to look at the three major classes of exposure and then go through a 3-step
process for each one. 12. Operations: There are a lot of companies looking to save
money on data centers without sacrificing performance or reliability. One are to look at is UPS Load Bus Synchronization. A majority of UPS vendors provide this option
as standard equipment; decide if our data center needs this capability. 13. Technology: The last half of the year brings the vendors
trying to make their numbers – at your expense.
Here are The Top Storage Trends at Midyear
that are going to be at the forefront of every vendors pitch from here on; the
more you know the better prepared you are to understand you environment and ask
the right questions. Byte and Switch (June 17, 2008) 14.
Disaster Recovery: When flooding reaches the 500 year mark you
know that lots of companies DR plans will fall short. This is especially true as Iowa Floods Forcing Firms to Race to Keep IT Afloat. Planning for the unthinkable should be the
mantra; but one thing is certain, you will never think of everything. ComputerWorld
(June 17, 2008) 15. Rabbit Sense: Don’t know if these are THE 15 Turning Points in Tech History;
there are other points of interest i.e. Ethernet but reading these and
reminiscing about woulda, coulda and shoulda sure brings about the
memories. InfoWorld (June 9, 2008) All abstracts are
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