May 19, 2012

A Consultant’s View Of The Enterprise Storage Market

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. I am not the typical enterprise storage user. In fact, I am not an enterprise storage user at all – I am a consultant focused for over a decade [...]

Turning the Page on RAID

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. It has been the core technology behind the storage industry since day one, but the sun is setting on traditional RAID technology. After two decades of refinement and fragmentation, we are [...]

The Road Warrior’s Laptop

Tip: It may not make financial sense to spend hundreds more for a few extra megahertz, but make sure the system is configured with the latest-generation high-end chip.

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. For IT-centric workers, being productive from the road requires more than just exceptional personal skills: A killer laptop is needed to replace an entire office full of equipment. Let’s consider what [...]

An Ode to Visual Voicemail

You've got voicemail!

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. I have long felt that voicemail was archaic.  Like fax machines, voice mail systems seem stuck in an earlier era, with arcane controls and so little feedback that the user has [...]