by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 | Off-Topic |
I had dinner the other night with a pretty blond bank IT Vice-President. As the crystalline high desert skies above progressed from bright blue to velvet black, she shared with me some of her deepest longings — about her vendors. For security reasons, the bank...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 | Off-Topic |
In a recent column Tom Foremski ponders The limits of Google’s limitless business model. He compares Google to Microsoft for its penchant of entering markets with, evidently, no intention of monetizing them, thus sqeezing out competitors. Google, You’re No...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, May 28, 2006 | Backup, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
I came across an interesting product, NASLite+ from an outfit, Server Elements, that turns pathetic old PCs into servicable NAS (SMB/CIFS, NFS) heads. A 200Mhz Pentium with 64MB of RAM is recommended, and the minimum is a 486, according to Server Elements. It even...
by Robin Harris | Friday, May 26, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
IMHO, both. In a storage industry where the hardware cost to protect data keeps rising, ZFS represents a software solution to the problem of wobbly disks and data corruption. Thus it is a threat to hardened disk array model of very expensive engineering on the outside...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 25, 2006 | SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Wouldn’t be great to stroll into an internet cafe, stick a flash drive in the USB port, and have your desktop, bookmarks and documents immediately available without leaving any traces on the host machine? That is what Lexar is promising to ship in July with...
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