by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 27, 2006 | Backup, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
PC World’s review of 1TB disk boxes makes some important points. “With every drive we tested, we found setup easy and straightforward. The biggest differences in setup involved the connection interface and the drive configuration options (for features like...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 27, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise |
Some /. readers (OK, most) expressed enormous skepticism about 25x data compression. So StorageMojo has dug deeper, looking at some patents, to get a better handle on the technology. Let’s start with why so many people believe 25x is impossible. Though not often...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 20, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise |
StorageMojo’s /.’d post on 25x data compression invited much derision and a few knowledgeable comments. One of those comments pointed to Data Domain who claim up to 50x compression on “. . . data sets in certain use cases . . . .” Obviously the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 17, 2006 | Backup, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
Low-end RAID 5 is now available for less than a $1 a gigabyte, a tremendous deal for small businesses and home offices. Available at Buy.com and at Fry’s Electronics Outpost.com the Buffalo Terastation is a compact and luggable RAID array. What is a RAID array?...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 14, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Slash dot points to this story from the BBC and AP about military secrets being sold along with USB drives in Afghan bazaars. The flash drives are stolen from US military bases by Afghans working in them. A few thoughts: Maybe they should pay the Afghans a little...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 13, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise |
Byte & Switch’s Mary Jander has an interesting article about the evolution of CDP from product to feature. What is interesting is not that CDP is a feature, it is that In recent news, Mimosa made CDP part of its NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange Server...
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