by Robin Harris | Monday, November 27, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech |
Techworld, relying on a article in Arab News, is reporting on an apparent breakthrough in printed data storage, Rainbow Technology, invented by a 24 year old student in India, Sainul Abideen. According to Arab News the Rainbow Versatile Disk . . . can store 90 to 450...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 15, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Security & Public Policy |
The new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) on electronic information discovery (e-discovery) is serving as an excuse for some scary marketing. So how scared should you be? If your company is under $100 million in sales, not very. Over $1 billion, you need to make...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 9, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Security & Public Policy |
Companies and practitioners spend billions of dollars a year on RAID to protect against disk drive failure. Yet all the research I’ve seen shows that the most common reasons for data loss are, and always have been, caused by people: accidental file deletion and...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 2, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise |
The StorageMojo take on Boxwood Let me get the negatives out of the way first: Boxwood is a prototype, not a product. While the BoxFS testing is suggestive, the real proof is in application, especially database, performance. An eight node prototype isn’t very...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 25, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Open source software (OSS) has had a profound effect on several software markets, such operating systems (Linux, OpenSolaris and the various BSD Uni), webservers (Apache), databases (MySQL), blogging (WordPress and others) and a number of others. The benefits to users...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 | Backup |
From the Networker 7.3.2 Service Pack announcement: • Support for Sun ZFS for improved support for customers running Solaris 10 We’re not actually endorsing ZFS you see This is just to take care of our many loyal Solaris 10 customers. I don’t care why...
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