Maybe I’m just an old Unix hack…

In the land of Dilbert, I’d probably be obligated to wear suspenders and have my socks pulled up past my…

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…And why I’ll stick to Parallels

So in an earlier post, I mentioned that I’d been looking at first comparisons between VMware Fusion 3.0 and Parallels…

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Funny attitude adjustments

It’s funny sometimes seeing attitude adjustments that come from various companies as they’re acquired by others. One could never say…

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Storage Tiering vs ILM

Over at StorageNerve, and on Twitter, Devang Panchigar has been asking Is Storage Tiering ILM or a subset of ILM,…

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Can you trust Azure?

So The Register has a story about how Microsoft is edging closer to delivering it’s cloud based system, Azure. It…

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Virtualisation as an exercise in MTBF

When IT people discuss Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), the most common focus is on disk drives. We all know…

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Google service and accountability in The Cloud

Over at The Register, there’s a story, “Gmail users howl over Halloween Outage“. As readers may remember, I discussed in…

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Please, No!

So now the folks at the interoperability labs at Microsoft want to open up the Outlook PST format so that…

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Dedupe: Leading Edge or Bleeding Edge?

If you think you can’t go a day without hearing something about dedupe, you’re probably right. Whether it’s every vendor…

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Enhancing RFEs

Over at Grumpy Storage, there’s currently a fantastic piece about the sorry state of how Requests for Enhancement are handled…

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