http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Coll+Toumayan Computers and Technology Coll Toumayan Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=313093&ca=Computers+and+Technology Fragmentation is one of the most significant – and yet unknown - problems that plague computer systems and networks. It accounts for billions in annual economic losses, and is one of the leading causes of a wide number of computer problems and system failures. Why don’t users and IT departments take... Computers and Technology Coll Toumayan Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=310925&ca=Computers+and+Technology The banking and finance industries are so competitive that every penny is pinched, counted and still expected to provide high returns. Not only is spending scrutinized, but you have to deal with stringent data security and regulatory compliance guidelines. And at the end of the day, IT has to provid... Computers and Technology Coll Toumayan Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=304306&ca=Computers+and+Technology A SAN still consists of disk drives. Fragmentation is still very much a performance-crippling problem on those drives, and just because it got moved off the network does not mean that it isn’t there. In fact, because there are additional steps to requesting and accessing files from a SAN, fragmentat...