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