Warning: HP All-In-One Error With Mac OS X
Posted by Stephen in Apple on 30. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
My workhorse home office printer/scanner/copier/fax is an HP Photosmart C6180 All-In-One. It’s really quite good – an excellent printer, especially for photos, with solid scanning and fax capability. But HP’s software leaves something to be desired. In both Vista, it would “forget” how to find the scanner after a few months, forcing me to reinstall. [...]
How I Get 7 Hours of MacBook Pro Battery Life
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 28. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
Shortly before landing in San Francisco the other day, the MacBook Pro-using guy in the seat next to me leaned over and asked, “how did you manage to use your Mac all the way across the country? Is that some special battery you have?”
For a minute, I was tempted to make something up, as in [...]
3PAR Reserves A Seat At The Solid State Disk Drive Table
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 28. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
3PAR will use flash as “tier-0″ storage in their InServe arrays and is in the “flash is a drive” camp
Out of the Office and Away From Home
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 26. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
It is acceptable to give exceptional effort to your job, but far less so to have this become the normal expectation. One should never settle for accommodations or treatment from work that we would not be willing to offer to ourselves.
Symantec’s Thin API: The Plot Thickens
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 24. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
Last week, I lauded Symantec for introducing an API in Storage Foundation which will interact with the thin storage capabilities of supported arrays. Since then, I’ve learned more about this capability, and I am writing this update to share that knowledge. As I noted last week, the press release was a bit hard to follow and [...]
Hallelujah! OS X Can Reduce PDF File Size!
Posted by Stephen in Apple on 23. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
One feature of OS X that really surprised me was it’s amazing ability to handle PDF files. Since switching to mac earlier this year, I’ve become a PDF monster – OS X allowed me to go completely paperless for most business functions, including expense reports. I’ve started using the “Save as PDF” function constantly, organizing receipts [...]
Is Flash A Disk Or A Cache?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 22. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
There is a battle shaping up in the enterprise storage industry. On one side are those who see flash storage as an upgrade for the disk drive, and on the other are those who see it as a cache between the CPU and the drive. It’s a fundamental difference of opinion – flash chips can [...]
Storage Virtualization Charlotte: Thoughts and Reactions
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage on 21. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
I’ve just finished my day in Charlotte on my Storage Virtualization Seminar tour for TechTarget. We had another great crowd – everyone seemed interested even if some were shy about speaking up. I was especially pleased to see the optimism about the city’s post-Wachovia future.
Comments at the event focused on management, with my concerns about [...]
Six Critical Steps For Managing Email E-Discovery
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 20. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
What is the best way to use email archiving systems for e-discovery? Earlier this year, I co-wrote a whitepaper on the topic (sponsored by LiveOffice), and on Wednesday I will present a companion webinar.
The gist is that email archiving can be an incredibly useful tool to manage legal risks and enable more effective discovery of message content. [...]
Reality Check: The FCoE Forecast
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 19. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
This is part of an ongoing series of longer articles I will be posting every Sunday as part of an experiment in offering more in-depth content.
There has been a lot of discussion in the storage industry about Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), making it the toast of Storage Networking World, but this technology remains relatively unknown to [...]
