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Back From the Pile: Interesting Content From the Week of May 2, 2009

May 4, 2009 By Stephen Leave a Comment

There were some interesting events and blog posts last week. This new weekly feature highlights those! Enterprise IT Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Your Reliance On Backup Tapes - What's wrong with backup tapes? They're inaccessible, making them unsuitable for most applications. My latest post for my Enterprise Storage Strategies blog. Is Licensing Turning vSphere Into … [Read more...] about Back From the Pile: Interesting Content From the Week of May 2, 2009

Compression, Encryption, Deduplication, and Replication: Strange Bedfellows

February 5, 2009 By Stephen 14 Comments

One of the great ironies of storage technology is the inverse relationship between efficiency and security: Adding performance or reducing storage requirements almost always results in reducing the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of a system. Many of the advances in capacity utilization put into production over the last few years rely on deduplication of data. … [Read more...] about Compression, Encryption, Deduplication, and Replication: Strange Bedfellows

TechTarget Posts 2009 Event Schedule

December 22, 2008 By Stephen Leave a Comment

Although the details have not been released, TechTarget updated its web site today with a list of events by region for 2009. My understanding is that, although the formats and locations are tweaked slightly, the user-focused character of their excellent Storage Decisions conferences and one-day seminars will remain. Some highlights from the calendar: The Storage … [Read more...] about TechTarget Posts 2009 Event Schedule

Answering Your Email Archiving Questions

September 5, 2008 By Stephen 2 Comments

My webinar on building a business case for email archiving was very well-attended, so I was not able to get to everyone during the question and answer section. Since the questions were really excellent, I thought I would include them (and my responses) here. … [Read more...] about Answering Your Email Archiving Questions

Input Needed: How to Back Up Big Filesystems?

February 9, 2008 By Stephen Leave a Comment

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 comment or email so I can pick … [Read more...] about Input Needed: How to Back Up Big Filesystems?

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