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I always feel a sense of renewal with the turn of the calendar. Many people use this time to set new goals for the new year and take the opportunity to get re-grounded and move toward accomplishing their goals. Yet, as I reflect on the security landscape in 2011, aptly named “The Year of the Breach”; I thought it …

As a security practitioner, log analysis is probably one of the most important parts of my job. Just as doctors check the history of their patients before they check their current vitals such as temperature and blood pressure, security practitioners review and interpret log history along with what is currently being reported. Armed with this …

These are very exciting times for Integrated Data Storage, and by extension for our current and future customers too. We are growing, as our listing on the 2009 Crain’s Chicago Fast 50 demonstrates. Even in the economic valley we’ve been in over these trying months, our revenues have continued to grow. We believe this is due to our unique value proposition in the marketplace.

Now that EMC owns both Data Domain and Avamar, I am constantly being asked which technology is better. Before the Data Domain acquisition, it was tough to get a straight answer because the two deduplication giants were constantly slugging it out and slandering each other to try and find an edge and gain more market share. With the two technologies now living under the same umbrella, sometimes it is hard to tell where one technology ends and the other begins.