Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Hurricane Preparedness for Businesses Part Three: Protecting Your Data
- The maternal is the political
- PMC-Sierra Inc. at Lehman Brothers Worldwide Wireless Wireline and…
- Camera phones – the future or fake photos?
- HP renews Xeon server charge

Hurricane Preparedness for Businesses Part Three: Protecting Your Data
FOXNews – May 23, 2006
Where should you store the backup data? TOIGO: It’s critical that you take a copy of your backup software to a secure off-site location. Too many times companies that have experienced fires or floods or other interruption events were unable to access their backup data because it was stored in the desk drawer next to the system being backed up. You need to standardize a system for moving data to a secured alternate or off-site location. Make sure to label the media with content and dates and to replace last week’s media with the next week’s backup. Remember the lessons learned by big companies: The more manual the off-site storage process the more prone it is to mistakes. Unencrypted backup tapes have actually fallen out of off-site storage vans or have been stolen from cars or homes recently. Not only is that an impediment to smooth recovery it might also expose sensitive data about your customers or your companies… You need to standardize a system for moving data to a secured alternate or off-site location. Make sure to label the media with content and dates and to replace last week’s media with the next week’s backup. Remember the lessons learned by big companies: The more manual the off-site storage process the more prone it is to mistakes. Unencrypted backup tapes have actually fallen out of off-site storage vans or have been stolen from cars or homes recently. Not only is that an impediment to smooth recovery it might also expose sensitive data about your customers or your companies. Whenever possible automate the backup process and consider some sort of encryption on your backup media.

The maternal is the political
salon.com – May 23, 2006
orgJoan Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner May 23 2006 | Whatever we think of the perennial quest undertaken most recently by Caitlin Flanagan and. Now comes Joan Blades co-founder of. org with an idea she says whose time has come: a Web-based grass-roots attempt to weld mothers into a coherent political force. Earlier this month Blades launched a multimedia campaign to spark this mother’s movement… It reads: “It’s time for our leaders to do more than talk about valuing families. Join us as we let American leaders know we support common sense family-friendly policies that protect and invest in mothers children and families today. They have done an amazing job with open and flexible work in a sector not known for flexible work. They are able to attract and retain really high-qualified employees by offering them flexible schedules. JetBlue is another company with flexible options. They make people’s homes satellite offices.

PMC-Sierra Inc. at Lehman Brothers Worldwide Wireless Wireline and…
Free with registration – Fair Disclosure Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 23, 2006
And then on the telecom service provider side third segment down on the bottom-left there wireline access; we did have and still have an ETM-based DSLAM business. But clearly what we wanted to do was move to the next-generation network build-out. We clearly thought the winner in that area was going to be passive optical networking and the whole trend of fiber-to-the-home and so announced our acquisition and completed that here in the second quarter of a company Passave. So we’ll go into more detail on that. But clearly the two pillars of growth more balanced attack going forward. Just to do a little bit of an overview and scene setting on the access fiber-to-the-home market and then we’ll talk more specifically about Passave solutions. So clearly as we move forward here with greater demands certainly from online gaming downloading IP-TV and the move to HDTV everybody is looking for greater bandwidth.

Camera phones – the future or fake photos?
Times Online – May 23, 2006
Until very recently camera phones were in the range of one to two megapixels quite big considering just a few short years ago professional SLR digital cameras weren’t much bigger. But in the next couple of months a number of manufacturers areintroducing models that will set new standards for mobile phones with cameras. The Sharp 903 is the latest in this company’s line-up and accordingly Sharp contends it is powerful enough to allow users to not only give up their digital cameras altogether but any ipods that might be hanging around. It’s an impressive piece of equipment with a 3. 2 megapixel autofocus camera with a 2X optical zoom and a 24X digital zoom. It’s bluetooth compatible and features face-to-face video calls. As for memory it comes with a card slot for mini-SD cards that can hold up to two gigabytes of images… Using the same technology as the Sony Cyber-shot digital cameras it features a 3. 2 megapixel camera with autofocus built-in flash and image and video stabilization for better low light photography. It uses Memory Stick Micro for image storage. Coming with all the 3G bells and whistles it allows for image sharing almost instantly. The last two are from Nokia – the N93 and N73. The N93 is a brute. Weighing in at 180 grams it will be one of the heaviest handsets on the market.

HP renews Xeon server charge
Register – May 23, 2006
0HP has welcomed Intel’s new dual-core server chips with open arms. The company today refreshed the Xeon portion of its ProLiant server line by adding the latest processors from Intel and a host of other advances that give customers more storage and management options. The ProLiant DL140 DL360 DL380 ML150 ML350 ML370 and BL20p servers will all ship with Intel’s latest and greatest Xeons by late June. Intel today announced its dual-core Xeon DP 5000 series of chips – code-named Dempsey – and is expected to roll out the DP 5100 series – Woodcrest – chips next month. HP makes a ton of money off the ProLiant kit and is doing more than just slotting new chips into the systems. The hardware maker has designed new systems that will accommodate the rather unimpressive Dempsey chip the much more impressive Woodcrest product and future iterations of Intel’s multi-core lineup… This gives HP’s Xeon customers a slight edge over the Opteron camp in the near-term from a “systems” perspective. For example Xeon customers will now be able to tap HP’s fresh Smart Array RAID controllers small SAS drives and improved “lights-out” management. On the storage front customers can now for example pack a DL360 with six of the smaller SAS drives as opposed to two drives today. In addition the DL380 will hold eight drives up from six. “That adds a big increase in the RAID capabilities of the systems by using the smaller drives” John Gromala a product marketing director at HP told us. It should be noted however that some Opteron-based server models from HP are available with SAS drives today. The servers will pack a ton more memory as well.