DrunkenILM: JWT Smack Fu With Miss Marketing
Over at DrunkenData John William Toigo comments on my Computerworld post on the death throes of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM). I wish I could say he tore me a new one - controversy is good for readership - but since we are fundamentally in agreement he had to...
Massive Data Encryption Test
Federal Computer Week is reporting that the US Army is starting a pilot program to encrypt all data on all mobile devices. But that's not all: In the coming weeks, the secretary of the Army will release a new policy on data encryption mandating that each Army laptop...
Googzilla vs Microsofthra: The Gathering Squall
The Wall Street Journal (and everyone else) is reporting (subscription required) Google Inc. is venturing deeper into the business and education market by bundling a variety of existing services including email and scheduling offerings that compete with software from...
ZFS On Apple’s Leopard: Drops Of Fuel On The Embers
Update: In the comments Mark claims that the ZFS reference in Apple's Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X, proves that Apple is, in fact, working on porting ZFS: All filesystems on MacOS X are implemented using what’s called VFS plugins, these interact with the...
Storage Management Declining & Not A Moment Too Soon
The good people at Computer Economics have recently published an article entitled Storage Management Disciplines are Declining. Which is the best thing I've heard all week. Unless your job title includes the words "Storage Manager". Unused Capacity: Horrors! CE has...
StorageMojo.com At Datacenter Ventures Next Month
I'll be attending Datacenter Ventures in San Jose next month. There are a lot of storage-related companies on the presenter list, so I'm looking forward to seeing some real game-changing Mojo. This conference is focused on young companies hoping they have the Next...
The Fog Of Identity In The Post-Privacy World
8/24 Update: Alert reader Tom Maddox pointed me to Bruce Schneier's (CTO of Counterpane Security) blog post on TrackMeNot - and why it won't work. Good read. However it appears that Bruce is tackling one problem - protecting one's privacy on the web - and TrackMeNot...
Bits & Pieces: Network Storage Of Tomorrow
Cleversafe, Again The New York Times has a readable article about Cleversafe. StorageMojo.com commented on Cleversafe in June and July (see Cleversafe: Yet Another Online Storage Startup and Coolest Remote Data Services). The money quote: The Cleversafe design could...
How Big Is Too Big: The One TB Disk
One Terabyte Disk Drives Pre-Announced According to Cnet a Terabyte drive to debut later this year. They quote Seagate and Hitachi Global Storage execs talking about their intention to announce one TB drives later this year. 2007 delivery is implied, in case you were...
Lies, Damn Lies, & Storage Performance
I wrote this as a comment originally, and since I am sitting here at a bar that claims the World's Largest Selection of Draft Beer I realized it would make a good post, where "good" is a measure of speed. I am in a race against time: my blood alcohol level; ability to...
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