SSN Fraud – Again!
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...
SAS Storage Review: Bye-bye UltraSCSI
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 choice) the...
Data Security: A Modest Proposal
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...
Today’s Coolest Product At Storage Networking World
Well, after getting /.'d yesterday this is bound to be an anti-climax. But I scoured the exhibition show floor the coolest products at SNW last night and found three contenders. The first is Wasabi Systems the maker of a small (~1"x 3") flash drive loaded with...
Compressing encrypted data-you can’t get there from here
Several people have graciously noted (and several less so) that by including encrypted data in the list of what could be compressed, I committed a mathematical faux pas. They are absolutely correct. While I knew enough about compression to know that 25x is way beyond...
Coolest Product at Storage Networking World (so far)
So here I am in a cloudy and rainy San Diego, visiting Storage Networking World. This is a show for big data center types. Typical opening question: "So how many data centers do you have?" But there is frequently some interesting stuff presented amidst the vendor...
Google’s Gdrive: a boon for small business?
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...
Holographic Storage: Yet Another Breakthrough
Holographic storage promises immense storage densities and capacities with fast access times. InPhase, according to VNUnet has demonstrated over 500GB of capacity per square inch. InPhase is claiming they will ship drives with removable holographic disks with 300GB...
Curse of the Mummy: Sun Wrapped in Tape
If any of you are still holding Sun stock, hoping for a comeback, Sun’s acquisition of StorageTek is dire news. In the last ten years Sun’s storage group has managed to cut its attach rate by half – to the lowest for any major system vendor – so most storage...
Let’s get perpendicular!
Not as sexy as getting horizontal, but a lot more space effective. In case we were wondering if disk drives were going to continue their phenomenal capacity growth for the next few years, now we know. But I'm not really writing about that, which will be old news to...
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