OK, so let me get this straight. A recent study in the UK shows that 94% of IT managers in the UK regularly buy more storage than they need, 38% of all storage is unused, and 69% find storage management increasingly difficult. Yet only 44% feel that they shouldn’t have to do this? What’s wrong […]
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Five Foskett Feeds!
I’ve decided to add additional sub-feeds to my blog for those who don’t care about one topic or another. If you’re currently subscribed, this means nothing to you since the current feed is a super-set containing all posts. But if you want just a subset, read on! There are now five Foskett feeds! All Posts […]
Toot Toot: Email Archiving e-Book
I’ve been working with a team at Contoural on an e-Book for TechTarget on the topic of email archiving, sponsored by Symantec. Now that four chapters are posted, I thought I would mention it. I’ve written two more chapters, which will probably be posted in the coming months, and will be working on more after […]
Online Storage? Hardly!
Robin Harris blogged today about Google’s pay-for-storage service, and he hit the nail on the head. It (and pretty much every other current online storage service) is nearly worthless to most folks because it lacks one simple thing: A usable interface. Set aside Google’s traditionally horrid (lack of) marketing and you’re left with a service […]
A Seat At the Table
One of Mr. Toigo’s readers posted a thoughtful question about why IT isn’t more strategic in their thinking. I started writing this as a comment there, but it got longer and longer and I liked it more and more, so I put it here instead! I think this lack of strategic thinking is a reaction […]
