Storage Tiering vs ILM

Over at StorageNerve, and on Twitter, Devang Panchigar has been asking Is Storage Tiering ILM or a subset of ILM,…

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Can you trust Azure?

So The Register has a story about how Microsoft is edging closer to delivering it’s cloud based system, Azure. It…

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Lessons I’ve recently learned…

When I was at University, a philosophy lecturer remarked rather sagely that University is the last place people can go…

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Virtualisation as an exercise in MTBF

When IT people discuss Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), the most common focus is on disk drives. We all know…

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Please, No!

So now the folks at the interoperability labs at Microsoft want to open up the Outlook PST format so that…

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Dedupe: Leading Edge or Bleeding Edge?

If you think you can’t go a day without hearing something about dedupe, you’re probably right. Whether it’s every vendor…

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Enhancing RFEs

Over at Grumpy Storage, there’s currently a fantastic piece about the sorry state of how Requests for Enhancement are handled…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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