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{ Monthly Archives } June 2008

Processor Article, “Green Movement: All Talk & No Action?”

From the June 20, 2008 issue:
It begins:
According to the BPM (Business Performance Management Forum), data centers across the United States are using the equivalent of what five power plants produce in a year. Meanwhile, as energy expenditures skyrocket, discarded IT equipment has been taking up a higher percentage of the world’s debris at a faster [...]

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Processor Article, “DMD Systems Recovery, Product of the Week”

From the June 13, 2008 issue:
It begins:
“Businesses are recycling and refurbishing their equipment more and more for green reasons, security reasons, or, frankly, they want a little money,” says Steve Hilton, vice president of enterprise research and converged solutions at The Yankee Group. Hilton says the best remanufacturers and recyclers follow high standards when recycling [...]

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Processor Article, “Top Backup Problems & How To Avoid Them”

From the June 6, 2008 issue:
It begins:
Back in the halcyon days when 1GB seemed an unconscionable amount of space and Sarbanes-Oxley was just a glimmer in some lawmaker’s mind, IT managers dealt with backups mostly by buying locally attached storage, typically tape-based, and using hanging files of paper documents.
These days, backing up data is [...]

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Processor Article, “Products At Work — Zenprise: Monitor & Troubleshoot BlackBerry & Exchange Servers”

From the May 30, 2008 issue:
This article is a sort of case study on how accounting firm Grant Thornton uses Zenprise for Exchange and Zenprise for BlackBerry:

In today’s marketplace, successful accounting firms need to do more than simply balance the books at tax time. They advise their clients on the growing morass of compliance regulations, [...]

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