Columnist’s corner: Back to basics. That’s the foundational advice guru Roger Grimes offers IT pros in How to become an exceptional security manager. That and congruous practices. “The very human nature of purposefully allowing inconsistency as a norm leads to below-average outcomes,” Grimes writes. And the flip side, it follows, is also true. “Applying basic security principles consistently will mitigate more risk and lead to a more secure environment.” Lest I forget, evaluate those metrics, too. Storage: Mario Apicella kicks off with a question: Will SAS 2.0 grow greener storage? The pending protocol has many improvements, “the most visible of these is its doubling of the transfer rate to 6Gb per second,” Apicella reports. But there’s more to it than just speed. Zoning and 10-meter cables, to name just two features that “should make SAS 2.0 compare well with the popular 4G FC and should tease major storage vendors into embracing the new protocol.” New to our site: For those hard-core readers who relish a printed copy, we offer InfoWorld Express, which editor in chief Steve Fox describes as “an all-in-one PDF featuring the previous week’s top articles, as chosen by InfoWorld’s editors.” The news beat: In an internal memo, Michael Dell reveals an interest in moving beyond its direct model roots, the first time he has publicly hinted at considering an indirect sales channel. Google partners with four U.S. states to hone their sites for its engine. Yahoo scoops up the rest of Right Media, an online advertising firm it took a 20 percent stake in late last year. And Samsung starts mass production of bigger, faster flash memory chips it claims can hold 2 GB of data. Security