by Robin Harris | Saturday, April 15, 2006 | Security & Public Policy, SOHO/SMB |
The special interest attack on the Internet continues. Even as America falls further behind other industrialized countries in broadband penetration and network providers pursue plans to charge content providers for quality access, a new threat is emerging. According...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 12, 2006 | Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Storage is the last bastion of overpriced, underperforming hardware. In networks, processors and servers the radical economics of semiconductors has created a lean and mean industry prospering on margins less than half of what the old-line — and now mostly dead...
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...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, April 9, 2006 | Security & Public Policy, SOHO/SMB |
Data security is a real problem, and a problem with multiple dimensions. The most troubling of these to me is the problem of identity theft, since it is a problem that hundreds of thousands of small and medium sized businesses should simply not be subjected to. The...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Lack of offsite storage of critical business data is one of the biggest failings of small businesses. I know a photographer, graphic designer and video producer whose studio, with its complement of Mac and PC computer gear, was wiped out in a fire. He has insurance to...
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