If reading blogs doesn’t give you your enterprise storage fix, there’s a new option in town: Twitter! Lots of the top folks in the enterprise storage community are now using the microblogging service, and a regular community has evolved. It’s really taken off over the past few months. If you’re interested in enterprise storage, here’s […]
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EMC Cuts Staff as Recession Continues
Apparently, some were annoyed, offended, or hurt by this post. For that, I sincerely apologize. My intent was to reach out to my friends at the company in this difficult time, but what I meant doesn’t help those who are directly affected. I have only one question: What is the right thing to do when […]
White Paper: Enhanced Archive Platforms with Agility for NetApp
NetApp just posted a white paper I wrote about storage platforms for archiving entitled Enhanced Archive Platforms with Agility and Performance. The paper covers the following: Reasons for archiving Development of multi-source archives Different data types (structured, semi-structured, and unstructured) Flexibility as policies change Legal hold Maintaining performance with growth Reacting to changing regulations Archiving and the […]
Free MP3 Downloads From Amazon!
Amazon.com Widgets Amazon just surprised me with a $5 credit for their mp3 download store, and you can get one too! It turns out that they’re running a promotion through Christmas – spend $25 on music CDs or electronics (in a single order) and you get a $5 credit for mp3 downloads. Sadly, it’s only […]
Thoughts on Long-Term Archiving
I just completed my webinar for AIIM on long-term archiving. Excellent attendance (kudos to AIM!) and some great questions that, sadly, we didn’t get to during the session. I’ll try to tackle them here in hopes that their authors find these answers!