Summary : Christy Burke reports live from the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA). During the conference, Christy interviews visitors and exhibitors and asks them about their companies, new products and impressions of ILTA. To listen to Christine's interview, click on the arrow under her name.

Summary : SMBs have the same fundamental data center and storage needs as their counterparts at larger organizations - efficient infrastructure and smart data management and data protection. But, often have limited IT resources to achieve those goals. But, after years of getting lost in the shuffle,the pressing needs of SMBs and midmarket organizations are finally getting the attention they deserve. No longer are next-generation storage management solutions designed specifically for the needs of the enterprise. Smaller companies can now reap the same benefits as those of a larger organization -- and without breaking the bank. However, this implementation of new technologies means changes – change in product, changes in policy, and changes in process. With limited staff and resources, IT pros at all medium-sized businesses could use a heads-up on the potential obstacles to anticipate – and how to overcome them with the least impact to an already overworked team.

Summary : While the basic RAID concept has been around for two decades, the technology has evolved to offer more levels of redundancy in response to growing storage capacity issues. Although, understanding the basics of this technology is just as important as keeping up with new trends. Check out this podcast which discusses the basic principles of what makes RAID such an effective enterprise storage technology, RAID levels 0 through 6 and their differences, benefits and drawbacks of leveraging RAID and more.

Summary : We all know that downtime is a huge issue for everyone, especially as it affects email, databases and file servers. In this Experts & Insights video, we take a close-up look at the data protection challenges and solutions surrounding downtime.

Summary : Companies are using their testing and development (Test/Dev) infrastructures more and more as a proving ground for implementing shared infrastructure and private cloud environments, according to our recent survey of senior IT managers at North American firms. Conducted in mid-to-late 2009 on behalf of Platform Computing, Inc., the survey revealed that the top challenge of running Test/Dev environments is the need to manage virtual and physical resources separately, with most respondents also indicating that virtualization on its own does not address their most important Test/Dev infrastructure challenges. The Taneja Group surveyed 83 senior IT managers across the banking, government, manufacturing, telecommunications, software, health and pharmaceutical industries. We examined current challenges of managing Test/Dev environments, as well as the opportunities for server virtualization and cloud computing solutions to address those problems.