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By Gotham, Posted in Uncategorized

From the EMC Glossary: Data archiving is the process of identifying and moving inactive data out of current production systems and into specialized long-term archival storage systems. Moving inactive data out of production systems optimizes the performance of resources needed there, while specialized archival systems store information more cost-effectively and provide for retrieval when needed. ... read more.

• December 19, 2012

By Gotham, Posted in Uncategorized

From the EMC Glossary: Data archiving is the process of identifying and moving inactive data out of current production systems and into specialized long-term archival storage systems. Moving inactive data out of production systems optimizes the performance of resources needed there, while specialized archival systems store information more cost-effectively and provide for retrieval when needed. ... read more.

• December 19, 2012

By Kellye Garrett, Posted in Uncategorized

Every month Gotham holds Gotham Jeans Day, an internal fundraiser for charities selected from employee suggestions. Past recipients have included Operation Smile and the Wounded Warrior Project. Our chosen charities for December were the American Red Cross to assist with Hurricane Sandy relief and Children’s and Family Services. The Red Cross continues to focus on reaching as many people as possible who need our help. Getting supplies and meals and water into affected areas is the top priority. Since the... read more.

• December 18, 2012

By Brian Wagner, Posted in Uncategorized

I've been running Windows 8 for a few months now. Most of my time I use it as I did Windows 7, in the "Desktop." But, recently I've been delving into some of the Windows 8 apps hoping I would figure out the value of this new version of Windows. I've found a few nice apps, and I like the ability to dock an app on the side of my Desktop (such as Lync, news, etc). I decided to check out the Mail app. I configured it with the info to contact our Exchange environment and it dawned on me that it is using Activ... read more.

• December 17, 2012

By Gotham, Posted in Uncategorized

From the EMC Glossary: Replication is the process of copying data within an array to another space within the same array, to a separate local array, or to a distant array. The purpose may be to relocate the data, to safeguard the data at a second location, or to locate the data at a secondary processing site so that operations may resume from there. ... read more.

• December 12, 2012

By Gotham, Posted in Uncategorized

From the EMC Glossary: Replication is the process of copying data within an array to another space within the same array, to a separate local array, or to a distant array. The purpose may be to relocate the data, to safeguard the data at a second location, or to locate the data at a secondary processing site so that operations may resume from there. ... read more.

• December 12, 2012

By Kellye Garrett, Posted in Uncategorized

One Friday of every month is Gotham Jeans Day, an internal fundraiser for a charity selected from employee suggestions. Past charities have included the Michael J. Fox Foundation and World Vision. Although we usually select only one Charity of the Month, we chose two for November: Wounded Warrior Project and Black Dirt Toy Drive. Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) began when several veterans and friends, moved by stories of the first wounded service members returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq, took actio... read more.

• December 05, 2012

By Gotham, Posted in Uncategorized

From the Gartner IT Glossary: An application or an entire computer (e.g., an Internet gateway server) that controls access to the network and monitors the flow of network traffic. A firewall can screen and keep out unwanted network traffic and ward off outside intrusion into a private network. This is particularly important when a local network connects to the Internet. Firewalls have become critical applications as use of the Internet has increased. ... read more.

• December 05, 2012

By Gotham, Posted in Uncategorized

From the Gartner IT Glossary: An application or an entire computer (e.g., an Internet gateway server) that controls access to the network and monitors the flow of network traffic. A firewall can screen and keep out unwanted network traffic and ward off outside intrusion into a private network. This is particularly important when a local network connects to the Internet. Firewalls have become critical applications as use of the Internet has increased. ... read more.

• December 05, 2012

By Gotham, Posted in Uncategorized

From the Gartner IT Glossary: Encryption is the process of systematically encoding a bit stream before transmission so that an unauthorized party cannot decipher it. ... read more.

• November 28, 2012