by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 9, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Security & Public Policy |
Companies and practitioners spend billions of dollars a year on RAID to protect against disk drive failure. Yet all the research I’ve seen shows that the most common reasons for data loss are, and always have been, caused by people: accidental file deletion and...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 8, 2006 | Off-Topic |
Will that be paper or plastic? That question is often asked at American grocery stores today as shorthand for paper bag or plastic bag? At bookstores it could soon be short for paper or DVD? Remember those press releases where they’d breathlessly offer that this...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 7, 2006 | Future Tech |
At SNW I met with Claude Lorenson, Ph.D., Group Product Manager for Windows Server Marketing. If you can decode that title and triangulate where he sits in the MS corporate huddle you are a more informed man than I. I’d met Claude several years ago when MS was...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 6, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
Are enterprise drives worth the power? Data center power consumption is getting a lot of press play lately. The issue: increased density means that a data center rack that used to need a 2kw may now need 6kw. And for every dollar spent to power equipment, another 40...
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 3, 2006 | Off-Topic |
StorageMojo’s rigorously unscientific survey My absolute favorite product – and I haven’t the faintest idea whether it works or not – is the StoreWiz compression appliance. It sits in front of your big NAS box – the more expensive the...
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