The scandalous truth about Clouds

Your cloud based data may be hanging by a thread and you wouldn’t even know. Introduction The recent Sidekick debacle…

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Is Sidekick a Cloud Failure?

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain. J.K. Rowling, “Harry…

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Uptime is an inappropriate metric

I’m going to start with a statement that may make some people angry. Some might suggest that I’m just goading…

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Hearing hype? Do a TNB test

Call me a cynic, but I find buzzword-targetted hype tedious a lot of the time. There’ll always be people hunting…

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LTO-5 Update

Despite recent claims that LTO-5 is at risk of being a dead format due to Imation being the first vendor…

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Vendors! Listen up! Stop talking about archive when you mean HSM

When it comes to backup and data protection, I like to think of myself as being somewhat of a stickler…

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Think backup belongs in ILM? Think again

In my opinion (and after all, this is my blog), there’s a fundamental misconception in the storage industry that backup…

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Interesting dedupe technology overview at Storagezilla

Storagezilla makes a brief mention of a new EMC acquisition called FastScale. My (even briefer) coverage of it is that…

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Aside – Are voice command interfaces the way of the future?

Short answer: No. Slightly longer answer: Can you imagine a world of the future where we tell our computers what…

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