Key Technical Differences Between Email Archiving Products?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 31. Mar, 2008 | View Comments
I’m working on a new feature article for Storage Magazine focused on selecting an enterprise email archiving product. This is something I’ve done quite a bit of work around, so I decided to redirect it into a “bride magazine” type “ten things to look for” item. If you too know about the field of email [...]
Three Incredible Travel Websites You Ought To Use
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 26. Mar, 2008 | View Comments
I travel for work. I also travel for pleasure. You could say I travel a lot – not as much as some but definitely a lot. For example, I’ve spent at least one day in another state almost every week so far in 2008. Although getting there is never really fun, [...]
De-Duplication Goes Mainstream
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 12. Mar, 2008 | View Comments
Lotsa people use and love data de-duplication (to hyphen or not – that is the question) technology for backup and archiving, but it looks like this tech is about to bust out for primary, live, real, mainstream, what-you-are-using-to-store-your-stuff storage. Big news!
First up was the company now officially called NetApp, which officially blessed the use [...]
Microsoft: The A-Rod of Storage
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 10. Mar, 2008 | View Comments
Imagine there was someone many people loved to hate, but grudgingly loved just the same because of their incredible prowess. In Red Sox Nation, that would be Alex Rodriguez, who we follow year after year with a mix of admiration, envy, and anger as he seems to make all the right moves for the [...]
The Artist Formerly Known As Network Appliance
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage on 10. Mar, 2008 | View Comments
Network Appliance is no more. The company that made the second enterprise storage device I ever used, added the terms “filer” and “appliance” to the enterprise IT lexicon, and long suffered from a confusing array of names, is now officially called NetApp.
This is probably a good idea. A company needs a single name, [...]
Which Storage Protocol For VMware?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 07. Mar, 2008 | View Comments
One of the hits from my TechTarget storage virtualization seminar this week was a discussion of the relative merits of different storage protocols. Sounds deadly, but this can be quite a religious issue for folks, and it generated lively debate. I’m firmly in the “do what works” camp – there is no always-right [...]
Google Chatback Rocks and Rolls
Posted by Stephen in Everything, Personal on 07. Mar, 2008 | View Comments
Google added a nifty feature to their arsenal of sorta-world-taking-over products the other day (while I was away) – chatback. This lets us webby-writing people add a special chat balloon to our pages which lets random strangers google-talk with us. So I added it to my sites and actually had a productive use [...]
