Storage: While storage titans and analyst firms alike predict once-unfathomable data growth, Mario Apicella points out that “what matters is how much data your company is going to create and how you are going to store and manage it.” Prepare for the upcoming data deluge. “At some point you will meet an insurmountable wall.” Simply buying more capacity won’t help you climb over it, either. Apicella’s advice? “Data deduplication is one of the weapons to keep in mind.” Security: If the recent TJX Companies exposure of more than 45 million records related to credit cards doesn’t have you concerned, then perhaps a little perspective on it will. “This breach alone compromised a quarter of the U.S. population’s cards,” Roger Grimes explains in When identity theft becomes standard operating procedure. “It’s becoming clear to me that credit card and identity theft are so common that affected companies are almost not caring.” One such company, for instance, does not issue new cards until three separate fraud incidents have been reported. Notes from the field: Resolution. That’s what Cringester J.M. got, thanks to Robert X. himself. “ASUS finally did the right thing,” our roving reporter explains in Kicking ASUS and taking names, by replacing J.M.’s defective notebook battery. Best of the blogs: Car emissions and IT at first glance have little to do with each other. But as Ted Samson reports in Sustainable IT, last week’s Supreme Court ruling that the EPA has the power to regulate greenhouse gases could wind its way into datacenters. “The ruling likely will affect the EPA’s approach to the regulation of other significant sources” of emissions, Samson writes, including IT organizations since, “enormous, energy-hungry datacenters not only gobble up a lot of power but emit GHGs as well.”