Opinion
Only one copy!
Picture the scene, a large family gathered around a photograph album enjoying the many memories the pictures inspire. Now one of the children leans over and points to a picture that they like, and three of the gathering all agree. With this news, the owner of the album promptly takes out the photo, makes four copies and places them all back in the album so each person has their own copy. Sound ridiculous?[more...]
Do you work from home?
Many tele-workers have poor data security practices; so says a UK-based provider of hosted secure backup and data access.[more...]
Missing the flash point
This is a personal opinion expressed by Barry A. Burke, Chief Strategy Officer, Symmetrix Product Group, EMC Storage. These are his personal observations and opinions and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of his employer, EMC Corporation.[more...]
Sun scores blow against NetApp
Sun has had one of the patents cited by NetApp in its ZFS patent infringement case against it temporarily removed from the litigation. NetApp and Sun couldn't agree a settlement of the case though.[more...]
The UK government is truly world class - at avoiding blame
The combined UK Revenue and Customs and tax collection departments get shoe-horned into a single organisation, lose several hundred employees and then lose the child benefit details of over a third of the UK's adult population: 25 million people, by posting two unencrypted CDs in an insecure inter-departmental courier transfer.[more...]
Between a server or storage array place
Here's something for the weekend: it didn't take long. Just one day after HP announced its server flash SSD caching with Fusion-io's ioDrive and a thought that soon we would be having discussions about where best to put flash SSDs; in the server as cache or the storage array as tier zero, up springs Chuck Hollis, EMC's terrific blogging VP for Technology Alliances and jumps straight in.[more...]
Clustered Storage vs. Storage Virtualisation: …Is there a winner?
By Philip Crocker, Director of EMEA Marketing, Isilon Systems.
[more...]Vanity publishing
Some publishers are vanity publishers; they get paid a fee by authors to print and publish their novels or other work. Mostly these books are not sales successes but that's the point. The publisher isn't risking any money and, as a rule, book publishers don't go into vanity publishing, it being hard enough to make money in the book trade without printing books no-one is going to buy. But there is an exception.[more...]
