Classification is the process of systematically organizing information to improve managing, storing, and accessing information overtime. A classification plan is a tool that departments can create to ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices. Click here to subscribe. Yuval Eldar of Secure Islands Technologies can relate to his customers’ needs. Before starting up ...

Last month we began discussing typical file systems, starting first with local and shared file systems, then moving into the network file system. The network file system (also known as a proxy file ...

Data is critical to businesses of all sizes, and the idea of being able to store it anywhere and access it everywhere is immensely appealing. This is the promise of global file systems (GFS), which ...

Have you ever needed to format a new hard drive or USB drive, and were given the option of selecting from acronyms like FAT, FAT32, or NTFS? Or did you once try plugging in an external device, only ...