Please welcome NetBackup version 7 to the Symantec NetBackup family of products!  One of the feature enhancements in this version that I am really excited about is the VMware ESX backup utilizing the vStorage API.  Prior to NetBackup 7, it was required to setup and configure a VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) proxy server to backup VMware guests with NetBackup.  This required you to potentially add additional hardware, an additional operating system license, and another device/layer to troubleshoot when things are

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My interest in virtualization started many years ago, and I have played with Xen, Zones, VmWare, etc.  VmWare is without question the 800 LB gorilla in this space.  They have many, many great features that come at a price.  Sun XVM is a solution that is not quite as mature but comes at a cheaper price and Virtualbox is free and competes with VmWare Player. Sun now has a product line ready for cloud computing:

• CMT Systems
• Intel/AMD Systems

Change has been the one constant for Oracle over the past five years.  Since 2005, Oracle has acquired over 60 companies that have added both new solutions and technical expertise to what was already considered to be one of the premier software development shops on the planet.  Some you’d heard of, like Peoplesoft, Siebel and BEA, others were less well known, but each brought new capabilities to the Oracle “stack” and h

Let’s face it- when a 113 page RFP hits your desk with a response deadline of 6 business days out and counting, the task at hand seems arduous at best. Even with the assistance of extended team members (at the vendor and internally within DLT), the level of effort needed to submit a compliant response is daunting and forces us to truly raise the bar on our attention to detail.

Open Source Software (OSS) is gaining more and more recognition in both private and public sector as a true enterprise alternative.  Often thought of in the past as just a rogue technology developed by a bunch of coders with nothing better to do than fight the “monopoly” of Microsoft, it is now being legitimized and brought into the mainstream.  This is even true in the public sector, both federal and state & local which is considered by some historically to be the laggard market when it comes to technology. More and more government agencies are formally acknowledging OSS as a

The adaptive nature of threats to information security has proven to be one of the greatest challenges to personal, business, and government adoption of computing in general, and communication of digital information over the public Internet, in particular. Today we are not only concerned with theft of private or sensitive information created and stored on ubiquitous personal computing and communications devices, we also have to be concerned with the security of our information while it is in transit and when it is in storage at its destination.

By now most IT managers have heard the buzz around “e-discovery”. Depending on who is asking about it or requesting it, what they expect could be vastly different from what you plan on implementing. With my experience of implementing and supporting e-discovery solutions, I hope to clear up some of the confusion around e-discovery’s nomenclature and shed some light on some e-discovery solutions that provide the most bang for their buck. First off, let’s define e-discovery.

As a government VAR in the AEC space, we are afforded a unique viewpoint. The flow of Federal Business Opportunity (FBO) data for AEC projects is astronomical – with dozens of projects being released each week.