What’s missing with thin provisioning?
I’m stepping out of my normal NetWorker zone here to briefly discuss what I think is a fundamental flaw with…
Category: General Technology
RIP Solaris
Having observed Oracle’s strategy now for a while since the acquisition of Sun, and many discussions with a quite a…
There is no magic bullet
The always astute Martin Glassborow has an article on his blog titled “This Changes Everything … Honest!” In it, Martin…
LTO-5 peeking at us from the end of the tunnel
The much long-anticipated wait for LTO-5 is now approaching fulfilment, with stories such as “Mass Production of Sony LTO-5 Media…
What’s wrong with vendor training?
A recent discussion on Twitter about the high costs of training from NetApp got me thinking more about vendor training….
The perils of an Icarus support contract
Are your service level agreements and your backup software support contracts in alignment? A lot of companies will make the…
NDAs don’t suck, but most of their uses do
I want to start this article by saying that I’m bound by NDAs all over the place. The company that…
Who is your backup administrator, and who is your archive administrator?
My boss, on his blog, has raised a pertinent question – if it’s so important, according to some vendors, that…
Oh come on, pull the other one
I want to spend a few minutes discussing something that drives me nuts. It’s something I see quite regularly on…
Running Parallels Desktop for Mac in Headless Mode
(This is a local mirror posting of the guest blog piece I wrote for Parallels Consumer Tech Blog.) I made…