Password Misses and Myths
In this post Prof. Eugene Spafford of Purdue talks about security and passwords. There are so many buzzwords and scare-tactic marketing in security that most of the non-technical people I know are reduced to the cyber equivalent of burnt offerings: they subscribe to...
25x Compression? I’ll See You & Double Down: 50x!
StorageMojo's /.'d post on 25x data compression invited much derision and a few knowledgeable comments. One of those comments pointed to Data Domain who claim up to 50x compression on ". . . data sets in certain use cases . . . ." Obviously the folks at Diligent...
Gee, “Users Cite ILM Shortfalls” – Maybe ILM IS Bunk
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 industry's...
Solid State Disks Enter a New Market – Again!
With Samsung's announcement of a 32GB hard drive replacement using flash memory (like that in USB thumb drives) instead of rotating disks, the SSD is set to conquer a new market: the ultra-portable laptop. It is about time. I owned and daily used for over five years...
RAID 5 – Do the Math!
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 World's...
SOHO RAID: $0.88/GB
Low-end RAID 5 is now available for less than a $1 a gigabyte, a tremendous deal for small businesses and home offices. Available at Buy.com and at Fry's Electronics Outpost.com the Buffalo Terastation is a compact and luggable RAID array. What is a RAID array? Glad...
Saving the Internet for Business: Data Retention vs Rights Retention
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...
Military Secrets for Sale: Data Insecurity In Afghanistan
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...
Continuous Data Cluelessness — why doesn’t the storage industry give us more of what we want and less of what we don’t?
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 archiving...
Intel Punts Storage?
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 --...
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