The February 27, 2010 issue of The Economist contains a special feature on the data deluge assembled by its Tokyo correspondent Kenneth Cukier, who observes, "Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits but also big headaches." Statistics show the average American is bombarded with 34 gigabytes of information per person per day. The biggest data hogs were video games and television while, in terms of bytes, written words are insignificant, amounting to less than 0.1% of the total. Data, The Economist reports, is accumulating at a rate that exceeds the capability to store it.

Step-by-step instructions have been published for using the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (release 2008.Q4) as a repository for the PostgreSQL database for the ADempiere open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) application. Penned by Praneet Tiwani, the technical article provides all the configuration details as well as installation of ADempiere and test procedures.

The need to develop data archiving capabilities is a challenge that every enterprise faces these days for any or all of several needs: whether to accommodate explosive data growth; to respond to the pressure to meet promised service levels and backup windows for users; to provide archive data retention and retrieval requirements; and to better manage rising energy costs. Dean Halbeisen's Sun BluePrints Online paper "Sun Systems for Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software" details the openly architected, intelligent and massively scalable general purpose archive solutions Sun is developing to assist enterprise users in meeting these challenges.