Real Video: Where the SAN Stands Curious about the current state of SAN technology? Stephen Bigelow of TechTarget interviewed me (last summer) about SAN options, and the video is now live on their BitPipe site. Topics covered include combined iSCSI and FC SANs, ups and downs of modular storage and oversubscribed switches, next-generation SAN management […]
Archives for 2008
Mac + TiVo? Roxio Toast 9 Titanium is $30 AR Today!
Have a Mac and a TiVo? I was thinking of grabbing Roxio’s Toast 9 Titanium so I could use the TiVo To Go features anyway, and Amazon surprised me by putting it as a Gold Box item today. It’s $49 with a $20 rebate, with free shipping! Expired! Sweet deal!
Low-Power USB Ports Haunt My MacBook Pro
It turns out that Apple made at least a few errors in designing the hardware of the MacBook Pro. After living with it for a solid week, I can report that, along with the useless ambient light sensor and wimpy power cord, both of the ‘Pro’s USB ports are compromised! The left side doesn’t have the power […]
Storage MVP: I Feel Great!
I just got an email from Microsoft – they’ve given me the MVP award for the area of File System Storage! Great news – so how do I feel? Not quite as good as the “Steve” in this video, but pretty good… So what does this mean? Am I now a shill, beholden forever to […]
10 Key Considerations for Email Archiving
Email archiving has been a professional focus of mine for a while now, and I’ve previously written and spoken about the “eleven essential elements“. So when TechTarget asked for an article for Storage magazine, I had a good well to draw on. The latest issue of Storage magazine includes this article, titled “10 Key Considerations for […]
