I’ve just started writing an article for Storage Magazine on the topic of large filesystem backup. It’s always been difficult to handle really big filesystems – whether they contain lots of little files or a few big ones. There are parallelism issues, latency, throughput/streaming, etc. If you have experience with this topic, I’d appreciate a […]
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How Long Should Companies Retain Email?
One of the key questions asked of me in my current position at Contoural is this one: How long should we (the client company) save our email messages? Not surprisingly, I encounter a wide variety of answers to this question – Legal and IT usually wants a short retention time, while end users seem to […]
TSA Blog Ignites Vitriol
As a frequent business traveler, I have repeatedly been (let’s say) confused by TSA (and FAA and airline) security policies. Lots of them seem like nonsense, overreaction, or comical misunderstandings, and they can lead to some odd results, like the current planeside baggage mess. But now that the TSA has a blog of its own, […]
How Much Can You Rely On the iPhone’s Google Maps Combination of Skyhook Wi-Fi and Cell Tower Data For Pseudo-GPS?
One of the (few) surprises from this month’s MacWorld was that the Google Maps application integrates location data not just from cell tower triangulation (using Google’s “My Location” technology) but also Wi-Fi visibility information, thanks to Skyhook. This combination of technologies piqued my interest, and it turns out that I was in a unique position […]
Is Apple Fibbing With Their MacBook Air Renderings?
Yesterday evening, I began composing an article comparing my experiences a few years back with my sole computer being an ultra-thin notebook quite like the MacBook Air, but ended up at rather a different place. In compositing an image comparing my old Toshiba Portégé 3010CT with the super-thin Apple, I noticed that Apple’s illustrations of […]
