Test Center Tracker: Silver bullet storage for SMBs

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Mar 15, 20072 mins

All-in-ine backup: For SMBs, implementing an effective and winning mix of backup technologies can be overwhelming. Who has the time and the know-how to make it work? Well, InfoWorld's Master of Storage Mario Apicella has found an appliance that may be a dream-come-true for small and midsize businesses: the Breece Hill BizGuardian, "a self-contained appliance that combines tape drives, disk space, and a backup ap

All-in-ine backup: For SMBs, implementing an effective and winning mix of backup technologies can be overwhelming. Who has the time and the know-how to make it work? Well, InfoWorld’s Master of Storage Mario Apicella has found an appliance that may be a dream-come-true for small and midsize businesses: the Breece Hill BizGuardian, “a self-contained appliance that combines tape drives, disk space, and a backup application under the easy management tools of Windows Server 2003.”

Don’t sweat OpenBSD security: Geek in Paradise Josh Kuo observes that, after a decade with a clean remote-security record, a new vulnerability has been discovered in OpenBSD. That’s a pretty impressive track record indeed, Josh says, compared to OSes like Linux and Windows. “It’s obviously super secure, and there are some pre-built OpenBSD-based firewall appliance installers that you can easily use with any regular PC hardware.”

Cisco, please fix WebEx: The big news of the day is, Cisco has bought online conference provider WebEx for a cool $3.2 billion with the aim of delivering “a stronger combination of communications and collaboration platforms for business customers,” the IDGNS reports. Well, Matt Asay over in Open Sources has a simple hope: “that maybe WebEx will actually work now.” He says that his company is “already in the process of cancelling our account due to shoddy technology – it crashes all the time.”