5 questions for Drobo
I love my Drobo. I have a 4-drive FW800/USB-2 unit, purchased mid last year. It has pride of place sitting…
Category: General Technology
Privacy? You don’t need any of that!
[Update] False positives – that’s the update following the investigation by Samsung and others. I’m personally very glad to hear…
The 7 Challenges of Data Protection
It struck me recently while working on a report that there’s 7 distinct challenges in data protection, and that we…
Setting alarm bells ringing
As a consultant, you get attuned to (or as some would have it, “cynical”) certain key phrases and statements when…
37 Signals and the “end of the IT department”
The folks over at 37 Signals published a little piece of what I would have to describe as crazy fiction,…
Aside: In praise of pbzip2
A while ago I got rather frustrated with the performance of compression utilities on my Mac Pro. It’s a bit…
Deduplication and space management
Deduplication can create fantastic space saving opportunities within an environment, but it does also create the need for a much…
First impressions: Data Domain Boost
When IDATA was beta testing NetWorker 7.6 SP1, my colleagues in New Zealand were responsible for testing the DD/Boost functionality….
Good enough, or perfect?
There was an interesting discussion being held on Twitter a day or so ago – the question of designing systems…
Deleting with Reckless Abaddon
This is the fifth and final part of our four part series “Data Lifecycle Management”. (By slipping in an aside…