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Four Fundamental Best Practices for Enterprise IT

September 24, 2010 By Stephen Leave a Comment

Although many people are cynical about the whole idea of best practices, I'm a believer. I think that such beasts do exist, just that too many companies, analysts and especially consultants spend too much time applying the label to whatever works in their best interest at the time. To counteract this cesspool of non-best practices, I thought it best to put down a few ideas of … [Read more...] about Four Fundamental Best Practices for Enterprise IT

Could EMC World Attendees Have Missed The Private Cloud Message?

May 13, 2010 By Stephen 1 Comment

"Private cloud" wasn't just the message of EMC World 2010, it was the slogan. The phrase was everywhere, from the airport to the taxis to the cycle rickshaws to the convention center walls. But end users seemed as confused as ever when talking to me, and EMC's own show video proves the point: EMC's customers are using virtualization and public cloud talking points, not the … [Read more...] about Could EMC World Attendees Have Missed The Private Cloud Message?

Drobo, XP Users: Beware of 4K “Advanced Format” Drives!

December 23, 2009 By Stephen 4 Comments

Western Digital is first to market with "Advanced Format" 4K-sector drives

Personal computer hard disk drive access methods have repeatedly been forced to adapt to ever-expanding capacity. Physical (CHS) addressing and 28-bit LBA have been abandoned, but the disk drives themselves retain the tiny 512-byte sectors they have had since IBM introduced fixed-block addressing in the 1970's. But time marches on, and Western Digital is leading the change to … [Read more...] about Drobo, XP Users: Beware of 4K “Advanced Format” Drives!

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