by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 21, 2006 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
Backup Paranoia and Letting Go Issues of personal backup loom large this morning. I spent some time reading up on personal backup in light of my personal concerns. Here is the official StorageMojo.com cheat sheet on personal and SOHO backup. How Much Data Do You...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 | Off-Topic |
It’s been dry in Northern Arizona this year – only about a quarter of the normal rainfall. The fire chief said last week that the moisture content of local trees is less than that of kiln-dried lumber. Very dry. l took the header picture above Sunday...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 19, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise |
Imagine we had to reprint all the world’s books every 5 years to preserve them. Would we? Could we? That is the flip side of Quick Disk Erase (the previous post): data preservation. Storage pros focus on device availability and redundancy, but these are the...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, June 18, 2006 | Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
How Hard? After a US spy plane was forced to land in China and the plane’s disks gave up military secrets, researchers worked to figure out how to quickly and securely erase the disk. Even when the people snooping it had unlimited time and money. Crushing,...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 16, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
What about the data center investments of Yahoo, Google and Microsoft? Microsoft has commited to spend over $2.5B on capital and acquisitions – much of it to compete with Google. Yahoo will also likely spend about $1B just on computers and equipment. Google will...
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