by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 19, 2006 | Enterprise, SAN, FC |
Byte and Switch has posted an article on ILM (Information Lifecyle Management) where users note that it is very difficult to classify data and to move large quantities from more expensive to less expensive storage. These problems are consequences of the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 18, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy, SOHO/SMB |
Even though disk storage gets about 5-10% cheaper every quarter, people still hate paying for it. A new CPU goes faster, a new display is brighter and/or bigger, but new storage just sits there until we fill it up. For that reason, the idea of RAID 5 (see the...
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...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 11, 2006 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy, SOHO/SMB |
Computerworld has a story about Broward County, FL posting thousands of social security numbers and other personal data on-line, in compliance with state law. Personally I think it is a good idea that public records be available online. What is a bad idea is making...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 10, 2006 | Enterprise, SOHO/SMB |
The good folks at tomshardware.com have a good review of some Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hardware. Other than the oddity of testing RAID 0 performance on a file server workload (RAID 0 = 1 disk failure and all your data is gone – RAID 1+0 is a much better...
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