by Robin Harris | Monday, April 2, 2007 | Off-Topic |
As if I wasn’t busy enough already I’ve taken on another blog called Storage Bits at ZDnet. I’d been blogging for Computerworld on a volunteer basis, so when ZDnet started waving obscene amounts of money (obscenely low, but at least a positive...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 2, 2007 | Price Lists |
It might not look like it, but the StorageMojo elves have been hard at work combing the internet for publicly available pricing information. These aren’t exactly storage companies, but they are owned by a storage company, so what the hey? Check out the new...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 30, 2007 | Backup, Off-Topic, Security & Public Policy |
A distinguished scholar published a book last year about data replication in the Greek-speaking ancient world. He examined a group of texts and how the technology and context of the times affected data integrity. He looked at (I think he had some help) over 5700...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 28, 2007 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I had a flash drive in my first laptop and I love ’em. So the industry’s dithering on SSDs drives me nuts. Some kind of announcement, then zip on product availability. Then another announcement, aimed at God-only-knows what market. Multi-billion dollar...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, March 25, 2007 | Future Tech |
Guess what? There were TWO best papers at FAST ’07 I wrote about “Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You? (see Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong). So it is equal time for the other the other “best...
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