How indispensable is your company?
A wise man once said in a meeting: If you want to see how indispensable you are, stick your finger…
Category: General thoughts
Technology is not the solution
Earlier in the year, I wrote a post, “Technology is rarely the issue“. In that post, I said: As techos…
Adherents to the Repeated Meme
How often have you heard these two memes? “Tape Sucks” “Tape is dead” Oh it just goes on and on,…
Did NetApp jump the shark?
If you’re not familiar with the term jumping the shark, you might want to read up on the history of…
Partner is not a dirty word
I periodically see indignant tweets and comments by people that if you sell something to a client, then you’re at…
First, backup everything
Martin Glassborow, aka @storagebod, and I had a bit of a discussion via Twitter, which came down to the following:…
Technology is rarely the issue
One of the stories I sometimes hear from companies is that some technology X doesn’t work in their environment because…
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,…