Because Japan produces more than 40% of the world's NAND flash memory chips -- and 15% of its DRAM -- the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that hit today could seriously affect worldwide semiconductor supplies, according to research firms.
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Marquette University's IT department deployed unified communications tools to improve collaboration among faculty and staff - IT staff collaboration wasn't the priority. But as it turned out, Microsoft's Lync suite of voice, videoconferencing and instant messaging tools proved to be IT's life raft during a snowstorm-related data center calamity.
Tape backup is dead. Long live tape backup.
On a Sunday morning last year, John Brooks received news no one wants to hear. There'd been an electrical fire in the basement of a New York City office tower - where his law firm has an office.
Enterprises today have many more backup choices than they used to have, and they’re taking advantage by pairing legacy technologies such as tape with newer disk-based data protection options. Depending on budget, performance and availability requirements, enterprises can mix and match different techniques to meet their <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/disaster-recovery.html">disaster recovery</a> objectives.
Druva, a company that sells enterprise backup software, <a href="http://www.druva.com/news/2011/02/10/Druva-Announces-Enterprise-Laptop-Backup-Solution-Launch">today announced</a> Druva inSync 4.1 Enterprise, an application that the company claims to offer near-instantaneous automated backups of laptops.
A broad spectrum of IT people, including those close to <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/topic/17/Security">security</a> functions, appear to have little awareness of key security issues impacting their organizations, a new survey shows.
WAN optimization provider Riverbed Technology <a href="http://www.riverbed.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2011/press_020711">announced Monday</a> a new set of interfaces aimed at helping company executives and business managers understand how well their applications are meeting business service levels.
Business continuity systems were put to the test during and after the earthquake in Christchurch. The benefits of cloud computing also came to the fore, as smaller companies were saved by not having their systems onsite.
JPMorgan Chase is trying to move past three days of problems on its online banking site with an apology and an explanation that seems to put the cause on a third party.
JPMorgan Chase is blaming "technical issues" for an outage to its online banking site that may well be one of the longest outages by a major provider in recent memory.
US-based Mozy, which is owned by EMC, claims that more than 50,000 businesses use its MozyPro service, including accounting firms, banks and the University of San Francisco, in addition to over a million consumers.
The greatest risk identified for a new enterprise backup and disaster recovery project for Auckland City Council isn’t “supplier fails to deliver services required”, or “cost of project exceeds first estimates”.
With the first flu pandemic in 41 years officially declared today by The World Health Organization (WHO), companies are again being urged to make sure that business continuity plans are in place and they're prepared for the outbreak.