by Robin Harris | Friday, June 2, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
Storage Pie In The Sky Storage, the least sexy member of the Iron Triangle of infrastructure, is getting more buzz — and the right kind of buzz. At the Wall St. Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference, Bill Gates stated that Microsoft is working on a...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 1, 2006 | Off-Topic |
Terry Semel, CEO of Yahoo, has been taking a beating in the blogosphere because Yahoo has helped the Chinese government nab dissidents. People are acting surprised that large multi-national corporations are aiding authoritarian governments. Get real, folks. I’m...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 1, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Part I discussed performance and and some data integrity features of ZFS. Now for some more cool features and the StorageMojo.com conclusion. Physician, Heal Thyself On-disk bit rot is a real and continuing problem. For a lot of reasons, data can go wrong. The...
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...
Recent Comments