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…
Category: General Technology
…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…
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…
Storage Tiering vs ILM
Over at StorageNerve, and on Twitter, Devang Panchigar has been asking Is Storage Tiering ILM or a subset of ILM,…
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…
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…
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…
Please, No!
So now the folks at the interoperability labs at Microsoft want to open up the Outlook PST format so that…
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…
Enhancing RFEs
Over at Grumpy Storage, there’s currently a fantastic piece about the sorry state of how Requests for Enhancement are handled…