The Virtualization of Stuff: The Post-Stuff World
From the Wall Street Journal comes this comment about the impact of cheap digital storage on the physical world. The Post-Stuff World: We invented records, books, newspapers and cash to hold those "idea" nouns -- music, writing, news and value -- and we larded up our...
When CIOs Speak, Listen Behind The Words
Over at HDS, the always thoughtful Hu Yoshida, discusses a recent CIO roundtable he attended. I've spent years of close listening to customers to understand the nature of their communication. Despite the "high-tech" aura of their work, I've found that IT people are...
RFPs For The Rest Of Us
Especially for small business, where it is hard to even know what to ask, generating Requests For Proposals is usually too much work. Yet it is important to get potential vendors on the record, especially for infrequently purchased technology. And that is where...
Credit Where Credit is Due
As much as I hope Sun's Project Honeycomb will be a success, there doesn't appear to be a single element of it that is a first. Like most high-tech products it picks from threads of innovation that have sometimes been hanging around for decades. So when Sun claims:...
Sun’s Honeycomb: Google Style Storage In A Box
Pre-Announcement Analysis Sun is building, some might say finally building, its first complete storage system, Project Honeycomb, which they previewed at a Sun event last week. Researching further I found that Sun and others have dribbled out much more information on...
25x Backup Data Compression Further Explained
And I'm not going to do it. Instead, take a look at Data Domain's nifty pdf whitepaper starting on page 12 (or Sec1:11). The first 11 pages are why it is wonderful. On page 12 they start getting into the how. I have a few quibbles but overall it is well done. Also,...
Maxtor in the Home? How about the Business?
The folks at Silicon Valley Wag have a post about Maxtor, the disk drive company being bought by Seagate, teaming up with a software startup named Fabrik that is apparently creating web-based applications for managing one's home digital content on the web. Details are...
Make The StorageMojo 321 Margarita With A Dead Hard Drive
Its Cinco de Mayo. The weekend is here. Spring is in the air. Its time to make a really great Margarita with a Dead Hard Drive using the StorageMojo never fail 321 Margarita recipe. As long as you can count backwards from three you're good to go for another round....
Identity Theft & Fraud: Not Our Problem To Solve
Jon William Toigo over DrunkenData.com has a post commenting on the Computerworld story on data exposure in online public documents. Using that data criminals can not only ruin your credit rating while collecting tens of thousands of dollars, they can also take your...
Quantum & ADIC: Together At Last
The tape business is normally about as exciting as watching paint dry. But with Sun's misguided acquisition of StorageTek and now Quantum's acquisition of ADIC, the pace of change is picking up. Quantum has been in a long going-out-of-business spiral for the last six...
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