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Q&A: E-voting activist more optimistic about voting systems
E-voting activist Avi Rubin says voting systems around the U.S. have improved since the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, noting that more states are using paper records as a backup to electronic voting systems. Read more...

HP unveils de-dupe tools for disk-based backup systems

Flooded Firms Reassess Disaster Recovery Plans

Olympic technical rehearsal called a success

Planning for every terrible thing, and advice to go with it

Intel: Disasters can be 'business as usual' with enough planning

Iowa floods forcing firms to race to keep IT afloat

Stellar introduces photo-recovery software

HP puts high-end NonStop system on blades

Researchers urge ransomware victims to try file-recovery app

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Elgan: Independence Day (from the grid, that is)
Make your own "declaration of independence," says columnist Mike Elgan, and set yourself up with the right phone, data plan, laptop and other devices so you're ready at any time to do whatever you want do to, and go wherever you want to go.

Opinion: What the gas crisis means for your IT costs
Storage groups must begin to consider the power and cooling impact of devices on the data center floor. Power is about 5% of total IT budget for large organizations, but predictions are that this will double or triple over the next 10 years.

Saved by SaaS: Data backup via software as a service
In case of disaster, log on and grab your files? Some SMBs are having great luck with data backup via software as a service. Esther Shein looks at a few firms that make it work.

Opinion: Grid computing, data protection merging
Vendors are taking the complexity out of grid computing while still delivering on its low cost and high performance benefits all without requiring companies to add more people to their IT staff.

Review: HP SimpleSave photo backup software
The most difficult part of using HP's product was opening the package; once I managed to break open the sticker warning me to read the end-user license agreement, I was in business.

Opinion: Reducing disk faults by design
The ability to reduce disk faults by design, and then to automatically diagnose, isolate and remediate them when they occur sounds like a rather attractive proposition.

Opinion: Recovering backup data stored on disk
Companies are breathing a collective sigh of relief that disk is solving their daily backup problems. That's good. Because they are going to need their energy to solve the more esoteric problems that managing and recovering data backed up to disk now creates.

Elgan: You can be a 'digital nomad' (no, really!)
Have you ever dreamed of traveling while working? Columnist Mike Elgan offer advice, based on his own experience, as a "digital nomad."

Opinion: Establishing a disaster recovery application inventory
So what should a disaster recovery application inventory include? Requirements can vary depending on the organization, but a basic listing should include certain things.

Opinion: Consistency trumps synchronicity for disaster recovery
It's important to better understand some of the variances among replication technology and to clearly set expectations with application owners when planning replication deployments.

All it takes is a couple hours and about $125 to breathe new life into an old laptop. Here's how.
Is Microsoft's Golden Age over? What are Gates' most memorable quotes? Find out in Computerworld's complete coverage of the end of the Bill Gates era at Microsoft.
There are some things your CIO definitely doesn't want to hear. Also don't miss the flipside, Five things you should always tell your boss.
With its latest version, Mozilla's browser continues to raise the bar for what Web browsers should be.
Reviews, analyses, how-tos, visual tours, hot issues and predictions about Microsoft's new OS.
Four years from now, the IT field will be a vastly different place. Will you be ready?
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"This company's infrastructure group is running a disaster recovery exercise with a reluctant participant: an IT manager who's notorious as..." Read more Read More Blogs

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Looking for a virtualization strategy that offers both the flexibility and reliability to meet the demands of mixed-source environments? Look no further than the fast-emerging open virtualization approach backed by some of the biggest names in enterprise computing. Together they are pointing the way toward higher data center performance without higher costs.
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