by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 7, 2006 | Backup |
The people at the Madrid, Spain-based ISV InCrew, provided some history on the development of backup compression. I’ve edited it a little bit to normalize the English, which is a heck of a lot better than my Spanish. [O]ur Storage architecture manages to do that...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 6, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Ian Sefferman is a founder of Openomy.com, a novel and compelling online storage provider with over 20,000 users. Only it isn’t just online storage. It is an online file system with open API’s so custom applications can be built upon it, just as they are...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 5, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech |
The redoubtable Ben Rockwood pointed to a YAOSS I hadn’t heard of: Cleversafe. Their Big Idea: take data and split it across many data centers with: Disaster tolerance – like losing 5 out of 11 data centers – and still accessing the total data set...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, June 4, 2006 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
With Google and Microsoft talking about free storage online, maybe it really will take off. But what are our options today? You can start with this comparison chart. The focus here is internet accessible storage — not backup software that puts backups on the...
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 | 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...
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