by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 | Backup, Information Management, SOHO/SMB |
Moving to a small town in northern Arizona from Silicon Valley has enriched my perspective on many things, including how the industry develops products. The consensus is that if we take datacenter technology and put in enough defaults it will be “simple”...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 14, 2008 | Architecture, Backup, Disk |
It didn’t win Best Paper honors at FAST 08 – IIRC it was An Analysis of Latent Sector Errors in Disk Drives (the link is to the StorageMojo review of that excellent paper last month) but I really like the thinking behind Pergamum: Replacing Tape with...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, December 19, 2007 | Backup, Enterprise |
Email is the largest personal database for most people. Easy to search, my gigabyte of email contains contacts, documents, notes and the record of many relationships. I back it up both locally and remotely. But how do I know it isn’t corrupted? FastMail’s...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 18, 2007 | Backup, Enterprise |
I’m a judge for the Codie awards this year, so I’m getting to see some storage software that I might not otherwise. Today, Rick Clark, CEO of Aptare, demo’d their Backup Manager and Capacity Manager. I was impressed. Oh no, has Robin gone soft?...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 | Backup, Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
For some reason I volunteered to write something about vendors after the Wikibon con call today. That follows. Vendors: responding to EMC’s cluster storage initiative Context: EMC’s support of cluster storage for archiving and backup will legitimize the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Backup, Clusters, Enterprise |
Joe Tucci let slip, on purpose, that EMC will be coming out with a cluster storage system for backup and archive purposes at a press event this week. Hulk is the code name for the hardware. Maui is the software. Expect to see large green guys in grass skirts at the...
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