by Robin Harris | Monday, March 19, 2007 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
Culinary history: old wedding cake in the freezer? An long time friend of mine is working with the Culinary Historians of New York on a project to gather and preserve the records of a Depression-era WPA project. According to the CHNY: The mission of “America...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 16, 2007 | Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Virtualization is the answer. Now, what was the question? The drumbeat for virtualization as the answer for the storage world’s ills continues unabated. Yet I wonder if we are virtualizing the right things and, if we are, doing it in the right way. I got into...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 15, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
The Object of My Affection Why do we manage blocks? That construct is getting old. You might say we manage blocks because disks have blocks and we build storage out of disks. But what if disks didn’t have blocks? No more block management. We’d simply...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 | Backup, Enterprise, Off-Topic, Security & Public Policy |
Intel last week provided a window into just how screwed up even wealthy, forward looking companies are around document retention for pending litigation. In the law biz these policies go under the general term of “litigation hold”. Intel is in Federal court...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 13, 2007 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
New technologies tend to get their start as business tools, because if you can show them the numbers businesses will buy cranky, expensive and barely workable solutions. Such as today’s enterprise data and storage systems. What is the “Consumerization of...
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