EMC Makes Nice
Gosh, I hope they didn't sprain anything in the process . . . I just got a nice note from an EMC representative. Hello Robin, We've been regular readers of StorageMojo for quite a while and welcome the efforts of you and others in the blogosphere to facilitate open...
EMC Threatens StorageMojo
The Empire strikes back An EMC lawyer sent me the following email last week: On Mar 14, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Clark_William@emc.com wrote: Robin Harris: Your Website StorageMojo.com posts a price list of EMC Corporation. Having worked in the industry for over 20 years in...
Creating an Historical Archive
Culinary history: old wedding cake in the freezer? An long time friend of mine is working with the Culinary Historians of New York on a project to gather and preserve the records of a Depression-era WPA project. According to the CHNY: The mission of “America...
Files, Objects and Blocks, Oh My!
Virtualization is the answer. Now, what was the question? The drumbeat for virtualization as the answer for the storage world's ills continues unabated. Yet I wonder if we are virtualizing the right things and, if we are, doing it in the right way. I got into the...
Objects To Desire
The Object of My Affection Why do we manage blocks? That construct is getting old. You might say we manage blocks because disks have blocks and we build storage out of disks. But what if disks didn't have blocks? No more block management. We'd simply manage . . . ....
Un-Intel-igent Email Retention
Intel last week provided a window into just how screwed up even wealthy, forward looking companies are around document retention for pending litigation. In the law biz these policies go under the general term of "litigation hold". Intel is in Federal court on an...
The Consumerization of IT
New technologies tend to get their start as business tools, because if you can show them the numbers businesses will buy cranky, expensive and barely workable solutions. Such as today's enterprise data and storage systems. What is the "Consumerization of IT?" There...
HP’s Bold Move Into Storage Clusters
A shot across the bow HP's acquisition of Polyserve is a ~$250 million (my SWAG, we'll have to see what, if anything, gets reported on the 10K) bet on the future of storage. And I think it is a good one. HP needed to do something. Their external storage systems...
Lightscribe: High-Tech Sharpie Replacement
In January I wrote about installing a $35 OEM dual-layer, Lightscribe DVD burner in a $30 Firewire/USB case. Since then I've been playing with Lightscribe CDs and I must say, I like the technology. It isn't perfect, but for the extra $5 it cost to get a Lightscribe...
40 Year Old Virgin Storage: Insecure, Vulnerable
Today's Wall Street Journal article Skimming Devices Target Debit-Card Readers (subscription required, I fear) describes how thieves are hacking debit cards: replace store credit card mag stripe readers with ones that copy the mag card data and the PIN. The thieves...
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