iPad = iManage

You’d practically have to be Amish in order to not know that Apple today finally released their much anticipated tablet.…

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IBM and the case of the crazy-dense tape

According to a press release, IBM have come up with a tape format which is so dense that it’ll fit…

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The law of least astonishment and backups

A recent twitter posting by Matt over at Standalone Sysadmin reminded by of the law of least astonishment. If you’re…

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All this DeDupe is making me thirsty!

In a previous article, I discussed how deduplication is one of those technologies that still straddles the gap between bleeding…

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Availability and Uptime

Over at Storagebod, Martin Glassborow currently has a short and insightful post, How do you measure availability? Martin’s point is…

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Search, search, search. It’s all about search.

You want my #1 prediction for this coming decade in storage? It’s not going to be dedupe, it’s not going…

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Let’s have a Green 2010

While much of business has moved into the twenty-first century, one thing that continues to demonstrate a profound stuck-in-the-80’s mentality…

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Going on holiday? Don’t upgrade first

So you’re a busy backup administrator and you’re getting ready to go on leave. It’s 4pm on your final day…

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Show me the man pages

As a long term Unix admin, it’s frustrating when there are commands on my systems for which there aren’t man…

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15 crazy things I never want to hear again

Over the years I’ve dealt with a lot of different environments, and a lot of different usage requirements for backup…

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