Watching the announcements coming out of EMC World today, one bit of jargon stuck out at me: The EMC bloggers are starting to refer to “data deduplication” as “3D”. I had never heard this terminology before yesterday, but the EMCers are all using it, so it must be a popular term inside that company. So […]
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Email Archiving: Just Can’t Get Enough
One of the surest of sure things in the storage industry right now is the potential for email archiving solutions. There are literally dozens of products out there, with prices and functionality for pretty much any application. And the growing demand for letigation hold and search has made this an essential technology for any organization […]
Hello from Storage Decisions Chicago
I arrived in beautiful Chicago today for the Storage Decisions show at the Hilton here. What a great event this is – loads of interested and committed storage users and some of the best minds in the business get together to talk about how we all do this thing we call storage! I was glad […]
Who Cares About Copyright? Not Gawker Media’s Jalopnik
Yeah, we live in bizarre world of copyrighted conflicts… It seems like someone is always trying to exercise control over “their content” and using copyright as their bludgeon. First, let me clue you in to a secret. I’m a car nut. More precisely, I love the engineering of cars – and once delighted in documenting […]
Will FCoE Rule the Future?
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) has been a hot topic of discussion in the enterprise storage world lately, but many end users are just now hearing about it. Although some folks seem to think it’s here with a vengance, others doubt that it will ever make the splash it promises, with 8 Gb FC, iSCSI, […]
