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Apple QuickTime and Front Row Keyboard Shortcuts

Posted by Stephen in Apple on 03. Mar, 2010 | Comments

One of my favorite features of Apple’s Mac OS X is the clean and simple media players bundled within. But I often find myself wanting to watch a movie without my remote in hand, and was distressed to see that Apple implemented entirely different keyboard shortcuts for the transport controls in QuickTime 7, QuickTime X, and Front Row.

Innocence, Fairness, and Technology Benchmarks

Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Virtual Storage on 26. Feb, 2010 | Comments

Innocence, Fairness, and Technology Benchmarks

HP recently commissioned Tolley Group to benchmark their BladeSystem c7000 against the Cisco UCS 5100. The short report focuses on two results, and reads like so many competitive benchmarks in the IT industry: Tolley focuses on metrics that highlight the strength of HP’s solution and the weaknesses of Cisco’s. What’s the real value of pinpoint maximum-performance benchmarks like this?

5 Tips To Avoid Violating NDAs

Posted by Stephen in Personal on 22. Feb, 2010 | Comments

5 Tips To Avoid Violating NDAs

I really dislike non-disclosure agreements, but NDAs are a fact of life in the IT industry. Even folks like me that actively avoid NDAs sometimes have to sign the paperwork to gain access to people or information, and employers regularly require such an agreement as a condition of employment. I suspect most folks try to respect and uphold the agreements they do sign, but this doesn’t stop slip-ups. So let me take a few minutes of your time to pass along my top-10 tips to avoid violating NDAs!

Google’s Evil Buzz Is Building

Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Personal, Virtual Storage on 12. Feb, 2010 | Comments

Although “don’t be evil” isn’t Google’s official corporate motto, the company and its admirers have embraced the concept implicitly and explicitly. But pride goeth before a fall, and the buzz around Google isn’t just about their new social networking feature: Cynicism and disillusionment with Google is growing.

Extreme Tiered Storage: Flash, Disk, and Cloud

Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Personal, Virtual Storage on 03. Feb, 2010 | Comments

In this video, I present the shortcomings of traditional tiered storage and propose a solution: Although merely using different disk types will never deliver the goods, adding flash and cloud to an integrated, automated solution will be truly revolutionary. I look forward to the day when all of today’s buzz-worthy technologies (flash, cloud, thin provisioning, automated tiering, post-RAID) are mixed together to form a really revolutionary storage system.

iPhone Review: Aliph Jawbone ICON BlueTooth Headset

Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal on 01. Feb, 2010 | Comments

iPhone Review: Aliph Jawbone ICON BlueTooth Headset

With my Cardo Scala abandoned in a New York taxi and my Motorola H800 falling apart, I decided it was time to pick up a new BlueTooth headset. As luck would have it, I decided to buy on the very day that Aliph released their next-generation Jawbone headset, the ICON.

CommVault Gives Cloud Storage A Seat At The Adult Table

Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 01. Feb, 2010 | Comments

CommVault Gives Cloud Storage A Seat At The Adult Table

Only mature technologies are taken seriously and granted equal status when enterprise architectures are defined. That’s why I’m pleased to see today’s announcement that CommVault has completely integrated API-driven public cloud storage with Simpana, their impressive data protection and archiving suite. Now there are three equal backup targets: Tape, disk, and cloud.

Drobo Adding 4K Drive Support – What About Everyone Else?

Posted by Stephen in Apple, Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 28. Jan, 2010 | Comments

Drobo is adding support for 4K-sector “Advanced Format” drives across their product line, but others do not seem as responsive.

Does Apple’s iPad Support Exchange?

Posted by Stephen in Apple on 27. Jan, 2010 | Comments

Does Apple’s iPad Support Exchange?

Apple introduced their “magical” iPad today, demonstrating impressive updates to iWork but focusing on home and consumer applications. The company never mentioned business applications beyond Keynote presentations, leaving a question as to whether they support Exchange ActiveSync like the iPhone family.

What I’ve Learned From Vendor Blogging

Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 21. Jan, 2010 | Comments

What I’ve Learned From Vendor Blogging

Concluding my series on vendor bloggers, I present my own experiences wearing multiple hats and trying to remain credible.

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