iPad = iManage
You’d practically have to be Amish in order to not know that Apple today finally released their much anticipated tablet….
Category: General Technology
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…
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…
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…
Availability and Uptime
Over at Storagebod, Martin Glassborow currently has a short and insightful post, How do you measure availability? Martin’s point is…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…