Microsoft’s brightest announcement at CES 2009 is pictured below. What is it, you ask? Why it’s a tag! You know how graffiti artists “tag” signs and billboards? Microsoft wants to break into that game, too, but in a legit way. See, they’ve also introduced tag reader software for mobile devices at gettag.mobi, including an iPhone app, […]
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Email Archiving 101 Webinar, January 8
Are you interested in learning the basics of email archiving? If so, I’ll be presenting a webinar on January 8, 2009, intended to introduce the topic to newcomers to the field! Register online at Contoural’s web site! E-mail Archiving 101: A Non-Technical Person’s Overview of How E-mail Archiving Works and How to Pick the Right […]
EMC Makes Iomega Relevant Again
Pity poor old Iomega. The company responsible for hot products like the Zip drive and coulda-beens like the Clik drive was stumbling in the early part of this decade, unable to distinguish itself from all of the other providers of commodity external storage devices for consumers. Although the company had built the Zip into a […]
I’ll Have Two Platters of Sheer Storage Madness, Please!
The inexorable march of areal density continues with this week’s release of two breakthrough two-platter hard disk drives: First up is Seagate, with their next-generation 3.5″ “7200.12” drive family. Boasting 500 GB per platter, the drives are initially offered in 500 GB, 750 GB, and 1 TB versions, but we expect a 1.5 TB three-platter […]
TechTarget Posts 2009 Event Schedule
Although the details have not been released, TechTarget updated its web site today with a list of events by region for 2009. My understanding is that, although the formats and locations are tweaked slightly, the user-focused character of their excellent Storage Decisions conferences and one-day seminars will remain. Some highlights from the calendar: The Storage […]
