by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 | Backup, Clusters, Enterprise |
Time to get serious, guys TechCrunch and VNUnet are reporting that EMC is buying online backup provider Mozy for $76 million. Neither EMC or Mozy has issued any confirmation, so who knows if it is real. But let’s assume it is. Puzzled? This is a good fit for EMC...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 20, 2007 | Backup, Future Tech, Off-Topic, SOHO/SMB |
In a recent post, A Terabyte in the home? Hitachi’s CTO, the redoubtable Hu Yoshida writes I don’t believe there will be a market for home storage units. I believe internet service providers will provide the storage and data management for our personal data....
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
I got into it today on ZDnet with one of the other bloggers, George Ou, who published Why dumb-downed no-RAID storage is bad for consumers. As I believe that RAID is an idea whose time is coming to a close, I responded with Why home RAID won’t fly. So far, ZDnet...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 5, 2007 | Backup, Enterprise |
I wish I could report that one of the big guys stepped up . . . Instead, Jon Bach of Puget Custom Computers in suburban Seattle offered his company’s data on his blog post titled Why RAID is (usually) a Terrible Idea. It is a good post and well worth reading in...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 30, 2007 | Backup, Off-Topic, Security & Public Policy |
A distinguished scholar published a book last year about data replication in the Greek-speaking ancient world. He examined a group of texts and how the technology and context of the times affected data integrity. He looked at (I think he had some help) over 5700...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 19, 2007 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
Culinary history: old wedding cake in the freezer? An long time friend of mine is working with the Culinary Historians of New York on a project to gather and preserve the records of a Depression-era WPA project. According to the CHNY: The mission of “America...
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