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FAQ: Oracle (and HP's) new database in a box, accelerator
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison introduced the company's first hardware products this week: the HP Oracle Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server. Any questions?

Review: How StuffIt stacks up against WinZip
StuffIt's format can be read by Windows, Macs, Unix, and Linux systems and its clean, simple interface makes easy work of file compression and decompression, but with only a bit more speed, StuffIt didn't show significantly better compression ratios.

Been audited lately? Blame the IRS's massive, superfast data warehouse
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Opinion: E-mail archiving options
Journaling can create excessive server overhead and delays in e-mail processing. So businesses that already archive their e-mails are looking for new and better ways to do it going forward.

BI Is the Business
Overstock.com's BI strategy has pragmatic, bottom-line implications, says columnist Mark Hall. Inventory levels have been reduced to $16 million from $80 million without any impact on sales, giving a huge boost to the companys cash flow.

Your data's less safe today than two years ago
Over the past two years, 158 million data records have been exposed due to security breaches in the U.S. Part of the problem is that just finding where sensitive data sits within the organization and where it's most vulnerable, let alone securing it, is a daunting task.

Opinion: Resolving ILM's identity crisis
For the last four years, companies that employ both information management and IT professionals have lived with dueling definitions of ILM. Now a resolution is in sight, partially because something rather curious has happened.

With records retention, it's better to be consistently wrong
Even if companies misinterpret existing laws and create the wrong policy that destroys requested data, regulators won't hold them responsible the first time an infraction occurs as long as they change their policies going forward.

Opinion: Perhaps high-capacity disk isn't such a good thing
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