• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About
    • Stephen Foskett
      • My Publications
        • Urban Forms in Suburbia: The Rise of the Edge City
      • Storage Magazine Columns
      • Whitepapers
      • Multimedia
      • Speaking Engagements
    • Services
    • Disclosures
  • Categories
    • Apple
    • Ask a Pack Rat
    • Computer History
    • Deals
    • Enterprise storage
    • Events
    • Personal
    • Photography
    • Terabyte home
    • Virtual Storage
  • Guides
    • The iPhone Exchange ActiveSync Guide
      • The iPhone Exchange ActiveSync Troubleshooting Guide
    • The iPad Exchange ActiveSync Guide
      • iPad Exchange ActiveSync Troubleshooting Guide
    • Toolbox
      • Power Over Ethernet Calculator
      • EMC Symmetrix WWN Calculator
      • EMC Symmetrix TimeFinder DOS Batch File
    • Linux Logical Volume Manager Walkthrough
  • Calendar

Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat

Understanding the accumulation of data

You are here: Home / Archives for CDP

CDP

Why is DataGravity Such a Big Deal?

August 19, 2014 By Stephen 12 Comments

My God, It's Full of Data!

DataGravity just released their embargo and my little techie corner of the Internet is on fire. There's a very good reason for that, but it might not be obvious at a glance. Read on to learn why DataGravity is a Big Deal even though it might not work out. Let's start with the hardware: DataGravity just introduced a pretty ordinary storage array aimed at the fat middle of … [Read more...] about Why is DataGravity Such a Big Deal?

See W. Curtis Preston’s Backup Central Live!

January 31, 2011 By Stephen 2 Comments

Last week, after the Exec Event in Palo Alto, I joined my friend W. Curtis Preston for his first Backup Central Live! event. Curtis has spent years educating IT pros about data protection, this was the first week of a new series of self-produced events. And let me tell you, although I've seen him present dozens of times, Curtis was really in his element here. He held the packed … [Read more...] about See W. Curtis Preston’s Backup Central Live!

Top Ten Coolest Enterprise Storage Flops

December 6, 2008 By Stephen 13 Comments

This is the second entry in my Top-Ten in Storage series. Not every innovative product can succeed in the market, and no matter how good some ideas seem, they can fail to make much of an impact. The truth is, people buy solutions, not technologies. This list includes products so cool, so ahead of their time, that they just couldn't fail. But they did. … [Read more...] about Top Ten Coolest Enterprise Storage Flops

greenBytes Embraces and Extends ZFS

September 15, 2008 By Stephen 3 Comments

I've long hollered that ZFS is a real storage revolution in the making, but recognized that it still had a way to go before replacing UFS, HFS+, and most volume managers. Well, a little Rhode Island company called greenBytes comes out of stealth today to announce that they're doing just that - taking the solid ZFS core and adding some serious enterprise storage features to it. … [Read more...] about greenBytes Embraces and Extends ZFS

Primary Sidebar

Spreadsheets never disappoint

Warren Buffett

Subscribe via Email

Subscribe via email and you will receive my latest blog posts in your inbox. No ads or spam, just the same great content you find on my site!
 New posts (daily)
 Where's Stephen? (weekly)

Download My Book


Download my free e-book:
Essential Enterprise Storage Concepts!

Recent Posts

How To Install ZeroTier on TrueNAS 12

February 3, 2022

Scam Alert: Fake DMCA Takedown for Link Insertion

January 24, 2022

How To Connect Everything From Everywhere with ZeroTier

January 14, 2022

Electric Car Over the Internet: My Experience Buying From Vroom

November 28, 2020

Powering Rabbits: The Mean Well LRS-350-12 Power Supply

October 18, 2020

Tortoise or Hare? Nvidia Jetson TK1

September 22, 2020

Running Rabbits: More About My Cloud NUCs

September 21, 2020

Introducing Rabbit: I Bought a Cloud!

September 10, 2020

Remove ROM To Use LSI SAS Cards in HPE Servers

August 23, 2020

Test Your Wi-Fi with iPerf for iOS

July 9, 2020

Symbolic Links

    Featured Posts

    Faster Ethernet Gets Weird

    June 19, 2015

    Review: Blue Snowball USB Microphone

    March 31, 2010

    Hands-On Review: Unicomp Spacesaver M Keyboard for Mac

    July 3, 2012

    Marketers: Fudging the Meaning of Buzzwords Matters (To You!)

    December 2, 2015

    Preserving Your Credibility Is Your Prime Directive

    June 4, 2012

    What You See and What You Get When You Follow Me

    May 28, 2019

    Mac OS X Lion Adds CoreStorage, a Volume Manager (Finally!)

    August 4, 2011

    Virtual Machine Mobility: Of What, and to Where and in What State?

    January 16, 2012

    What’s the Difference Between a Jailbroken and an Unlocked Phone?

    May 5, 2012

    The Best Mac OS X Terminal Font: Glass TTY VT220

    October 6, 2015

    Footer

    Legalese

    Copyright © 2022 · Log in