Test Center review: Q1 Labs QRadar comes with a handful of preconfigured rules for dealing with incoming data, as well as controlling dashboard displays and actions. This security event management appliance and software, “with its NBAD background, is a good SEM with strong reporting capabilities,” write Victor Garza and Charles D. Herring. Still, it does have its limits. Read the full review here. Storage: If you don’t already know what the initials CAS stand for, it’s content addressable storage. EMC has been pushing the idea since it purchased FilePool in 2001 and now the man behind the technology is back with startup Caringo. “CAS was (and still is) a major revolution in storage because it identifies, I believe for the first time ever, a separated data custodian role,” explains Mario Apicella, in Storage Insider. Why hasn’t CAS gained more purchase in the enterprise? It’s been too expensive, for one. But Apicella writes that Caringo aims to change that. Indeed, products based on CAS “could become as popular for data archival as NAS appliances are for storing live files.” Quoteworthy: If you’re a local business in my town, it sucks to have me as a customer. Consider my bank, for example. Every time they upgrade their online bill payment system, I write a column about it. Last time I whined about having to re-enter all my payees when they switched providers. This time I bitched about an upgrade that scrambled my expectations and neglected to carry forward a useful feature. — Jon Udell. Onions and Orchids. Search: Guess what … it seems Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt is worried about IE 7 — specifically that the default search is Microsoft’s. Perhaps he is concerned that IE 7 will eat into the half of all US searches Google takes, while MSN dropped down to 11 percent, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. Security