Data Management/Storage news from FierceCIO

It may be hard to believe, but the world's data centers are becoming major contributors to global warming and are projected to surpass the airline industry as a major greenhouse gas polluter by 2020. Read more...

With all this talk about eDiscovery and so many companies pushing tools to protect or gain access to key digital information, you would think that lawyers would get it. Experts say that lawyers Read more...

A new survey from Quocirca finds that executives say software development is critical to their businesses, but most are not doing enough to build security into their applications. The survey of 250 Read more...

A laptop was stolen last month that was owned by a consultant from SunGard, a company that handles the records system used by Buffalo State College. The college was notified on April 11, nearly a Read more...

There are many steps to take to protect your data. One of them is to make sure your hard drive is cleaned before reusing. And remember it is important to use the technology that can sanitize Read more...

Smaller is almost always better, the sages among us sometimes say. This was the case when a facility near St. Louis run by Schneider Electric and its American Power Conversion subsidiary created a Read more...

A new survey of CIOs reveals that one-third of enterprise data centers won't be big enough to handle the increasing amount of data that is being generated, according to Hewlett Packard. HP disclosed Read more...

There are many ways to bring your data center up to speed. Get rid of the overheated, cramped closet where data currently is stored and manage it as it should be managed--with solar power and a Read more...

The already overburdened CIO has another big job on his plate. It's called eDiscovery, and it has been mandated by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requiring companies to turn over all electronic Read more...

Until recently, extract, transform and load (ETL) was considered the most effective way to load information into a data warehouse. It was a method developed because data warehouses were not Read more...