Our Far-Flung Correspondents: Tech Notes From East Africa
Perusing the Apple website a few days ago, I came across this story, Macs Join the Masai Tribe. Patrick O'Sullivan, a retired tech executive, decided to support a school in Kenya's Masai country. The story quotes O'Sullivan after the school room was built, solar cells...
Disks Keep Getting Better
Disk vendors are the heroes of storage Disk vendors don't get much respect from Wall Street, but they do the heavy lifting that makes affordable massive storage possible. And it looks like the hits will just keep on coming. Hitachi Global Storage Technology is...
Cisco’s Lock On Corporate Data Security
Cisco's just-announced acquisition of IronPort for $830 million is a shot across the bow of, among others, EMC's RSA acquisition. As I wrote about Datacenter Ventures last September A couple of people commented that network security is evolving from attempting to lock...
2007 In Review: Time Machine Version
Any fool can write about 2006 in review. But I'm not just any fool. I'm going to review 2007 in advance. Well, just the little storage saturated corner of which I am inordinately fond. -CIOs realized they are at a significant cost disadvantage and started prototyping...
Happy New Year, Movie Industry!
Friends of Fair Use, rejoice: it appears that the encryption on high-def movies, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD has been broken. Consumer content encryption is a fool's game This looks like a war the movie industry can't win. Why? Sell the consumer the encrypted content Sell the...
Many Price Lists and One Page to Rule Them All
A number of price lists have been updated by off-duty elves (Thanks, Santa!). The Price List page has them all. I've also noted that a number of companies listed are no longer independent, including ADIC, Avamar, CreekPath, and McData. I expect to see a number of...
Medical Privacy Is A Sick Joke
I'm still on a light posting schedule until next year but this was too choice to ignore. In a front page article today, (available online, but subscription required) the Wall Street Journal details a medical records horror story. A middle-aged woman's fiance commits...
IBM and HP Price Lists Now Updated
Click on Price Lists above. The others are coming, slowly but surely.
Economics of ZFS
Joerg, over at c0t0d0s0.org pointed to a good article by Paul Murphy about the Economics of ZFS over at ZDnet. He is responding to another article that proposed to estimate the OLTP price/performance of various boxes, including Solaris 10/ZFS boxes, without taking...
Troll Skirmish: ZFS on Mac
Personal Update: I'm taking some time off from daily posting until January 2nd, 2007, much to Ms. Mojo's relief. There may be some things I just can't resist. Just don't expect daily posts. Cheers, Robin I did a post on the /. Apple forum and got back an interesting...
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