November
2007
In this issue
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Business Continuity
√
i3 Webinar
√
Reading ebooks
√ Drowning in Data
√
Extreme Makeover
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Business Continuity - An
Introduction
Why IT must triumph in the
face of very high expectations
Preparing to keep the vital processes
of your organization going through any of a wide range of incidents is
challenging stuff. While IT is important, it clearly is not the whole picture.
After all, if you are in manufacturing, what use is it to have your remote
backup computer center in full operation five minutes after the fire started, if
your national warehouse is burned to the ground? So, all departments are in this
BC thing together. Nevertheless, expectations are particularly high for IT
continuity. Why is that?
We offer the
following three examples
of why most organizations expect their BC capability to be especially high in
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Improving the
reliability of your IT infrastructure doesn't have to be
complicated and expensive.
Join this webinar
and find out how to make the best decision for your unique
situation.
Improving
Business Continuity
Date: Wednesday,
November 14th
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm ET
Guest Speaker:
Steve Romweber
Vision Solutions
Registration for Business Continuity Webinar |
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Reading ebooks on an
iPod
By Andy Kaiser
The iPod does not have an
ebook-specific reader, or just a text format good for reading
ebooks. It's unfortunate, because the style and capabilities of
iPods make them perfect for such functions. Sure, you can use the
iPod as a portable hard drive to read ebooks on any PC. But if you
want to use the iPod itself as an ebook reader, it's certainly
possible.
Reading ebooks on an iPod consists of just copying the contents of
an ebook into iPod Notes, and scrolling through multiple notes in
order to read the ebook. But there are limitations.
Each Note can hold
no more than 4,012 characters. If an iPod Note contains more, it
will still load, but only the first 4012 characters will be
displayed. You may see other references mentioning a 4,096 character
limit. Looking at the results from an actual cut-and-paste
experiment, the limit is actually 4,012.
The iPod can hold no
more than 1000 notes.
Assuming each Note is packed to capacity, that's 4,012,000
characters. So any given iPod can hold roughly 2,467 pages of
printed text, or enough for eight medium sized books.
To summarize these
issues with reading ebooks on an iPod:
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As well as being an informative and entertaining author,
Andy is also a computer consultant for i3, focusing on
network services and web search engine optimization.
More interesting articles written by Andy can be found
at his web site
www.andybrain.com |
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 Drowning
in Data?
Tiered Storage Can Help You Stay
Afloat
The statistics are
overwhelming. Researchers predict that more data will be produced in
the next year than has been generated during the entire existence of
humankind. Unfortunately, this onslaught means your company data may
be growing out of control, and your staff could be struggling to
manage ever-lengthening backup times.
To keep up, you may be
like many who regularly add storage capacity to their servers and
SANs. But eventually, you may become frustrated with this pricey and
cumbersome habit --and the increasingly long backups it requires.
Or, you may seek relief by limiting your data and regularly deleting
files -- or forcing your employees to do it themselves. But this
habit can be risky and, in regulated industries, illegal.
It may be time for you
to stop and consider the long-term cost of your growing data, and
perhaps seek out a smarter solution that will help you balance your
data growth and storage resources.
Your solution may lie in tiered storage.
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