Tom Petrocelli, president of Technology Alignment Partners, is a veteran of over 21 years in the technology arena. His background encompasses software engineering, marketing, IT, sales, marketing, and general management. He has worked in various industries including defense, digital signal processing, call center/CRM, networking, and data storage and storage networking. Tom is also the author of a new book entitled Data Protection and Information Lifecycle Management, published by Prentice Hall.
Multidimensional tagging,
a key component in social
sharing sites, can
potentially help
enterprises manage large
stores of information. In
this article, I'll
examine the ways that
multidimensional tagging
will be implemented using
Open Source tools.
Backup is the most
important method for
protecting
mission-critical data.
Traditionally, a backup
system meant a tape drive
attached to a server or
mainframe. Software on
the server regularly
dumped an image of the
entire set of disks to
the tape each night. If
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