Thursday, April 01, 2010

Iron Mountain transforms; Verizon, IBM team on cloud-based storage

Verizon, IBM team on cloud-based storage | Victorinox Launches Super-Secure USB Stick

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Iron Mountain transforms
Last week I attended Iron Mountain's Analyst Day and had a chance to catch up with Iron Mountain and its Iron Mountain Digital business unit. Bob Brennan, CEO and president of Iron Mountain, and Ramana Venkat, president of Iron Mountain Digital, recapped Iron Mountain's business and forecast for the upcoming year and talked about the company's transformation. Read More


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Connecting to Better Customer Service
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Make IT Data a Strategic Asset
This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More!

Verizon, IBM team on cloud-based storage
Verizon Business and IBM are now offering a joint service aimed at helping large businesses safely store large chunks of data within the Verizon cloud. Read More


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Best Practices for Monitoring Your Cloud
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Victorinox Launches Super-Secure USB Stick
Victorinox, maker of the legendary Swiss Army Knife, has launched a new super-secure memory stick that sounds like something right out of Mission: Impossible. Called the Victorinox Secure, the new USB drive comes in 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB sizes, sells for $75 to $270, and provides a variety of security measures including fingerprint identification, a thermal sensor, and even a self-destruct mechanism. Read More


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IT Service Management: Beyond the Myths
Discover best practices and supporting technologies that deliver the straightest path to service reliability, operational efficiency and effective ROI. Also, examine three case studies that show how IT service management works in the real world. Read More!

Living with Windows: sharing drives
There are three good ways to share a single hard drive between Macs and PCs for general storage and backup: You can trade a USB hard drive between them; you can use a network-attached storage (NAS) device (such as Apple's Time Capsule); and you can also use file sharing to back up data on one system to an external drive attached to another system. Read More



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