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...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 12, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
A shot across the bow HP’s acquisition of Polyserve is a ~$250 million (my SWAG, we’ll have to see what, if anything, gets reported on the 10K) bet on the future of storage. And I think it is a good one. HP needed to do something. Their external storage...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 9, 2007 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
In January I wrote about installing a $35 OEM dual-layer, Lightscribe DVD burner in a $30 Firewire/USB case. Since then I’ve been playing with Lightscribe CDs and I must say, I like the technology. It isn’t perfect, but for the extra $5 it cost to get a...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 8, 2007 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Today’s Wall Street Journal article Skimming Devices Target Debit-Card Readers (subscription required, I fear) describes how thieves are hacking debit cards: replace store credit card mag stripe readers with ones that copy the mag card data and the PIN. The...
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