Updated Sun/StorageTek Price List
So what have I been doing? Well, we had 70 people over for dinner Thursday night. That took a little recovery time. If you are buying, or are interested in buying Sun StorageTek storage, check out the new Price List. Twice as many items as the last one. Most all...
ZFS On Mac: Now All-But-Official
Update: It is official. See here. Then come back and read the rest of this post. Thanks to alert reader Oskar for the tip. French website Mac4Ever reports - thanks to Babelfish translation: . . . the few innovations of Leopard, one read these last months, several...
Al Shugart, 1930 – 2006
A hard disk crash isn't the worst that can happen Al Shugart, an engineer on the first commercial disk drive (see Happy Birthday, Rotating Rust!) and later founder of Shugart Associates, a leading floppy drive maker, and still later, disk titan Seagate, died Tuesday....
Remote PC Backup – New & Improved!
Remote PC backup made easy Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal reviews (subscription required, I believe) two remote PC backup services, Carbonite and Mozy, this morning. Mozy: now they have something I wrote briefly about Berkeley Data Systems, parent of Mozy,...
The Internet Is The Message, Pt. II
What McLuhan didn't see coming Conversation. Bi-directional communication. All the time. Synchronous. Asynchronous. In text, video, image, sound. Not surprising. After all, he came of age in the age of mass media or, more precisely, mass one-to-many media. Newspapers,...
The Internet Is The Message, Pt. I
Marshall McLuhan's aphorism, "the medium is the message," is just as true, and misunderstood, today as it was 40 years ago. Yet the onslaught of "new media," "social media" and "interactive media" makes the advent of radio and television, catalysts for much of...
Phase change: Super-flash or Flash-in-the-pan?
The storage world is abuzz this morning over a new paper at this years International Electron Device Meeting talking about recent improvements in phase-change memory. The underlying technology is cool: a bit of germanium-antimony (GeSb) alloy which can be rapidly...
Unstructured Information Management
The redoubtable Kevin Closson has a post entitled "Introducing the “Unstructured Data Administratorâ€. In it he refers to a study put out by the Independent Oracle Users Group called "Managing the Storage Equation: The Converging Roles of Data and Storage...
Enterprise Storage On a Shoestring, Pt. III
So I sent a note off to the nice folks at HP who wrote this paper, alerting them to their elevation to storage rock stars, and one of them wrote me back to alert me to a newer version of the paper. The newer version is less sprightly yet has a lot more information, so...
Adam Smith and the Liberace Effect
One of the holy books of the Mammon-worshipping Church of the MBA is Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. One of the things I like about Smith is his intellectual ju-jitsu on the issue of the essential amorality of markets. Sure, Smith says, the people buying and selling...
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