Archive for April, 2009
The “Black Box” of Archiving
Posted in Tech Talk on April 27th, 2009 1 Comment »
We all know what a “black box” signifies. “It is a technical term for a device, system or object when it is viewed in terms of its input, output and transfer characteristics without any knowledge required of its internal workings.” I know this because I just read the Wikipedia definition and did a copy/paste into [...]
Smackdown on Barry Burke, EMC
Posted in Tech Talk on April 20th, 2009 7 Comments »
Barry, Barry, Barry…watch your mud…it’s about to sling back in your direction….
I’m getting a little ticked off over this banter of what company was first with what technology, and Barry Burke, the self-proclaimed storage anarchist, made some comments on our own Christopher Bertrand’s blog that need some serious corrections. I’m not sure where he gets [...]
EMC - Catching Up With the Past
Posted in Tech Talk on April 14th, 2009 2 Comments »
To anyone who just happened to have crawled out from under a rock, EMC made the long-awaited announcement of what had been rumored to be either the DMX-5 or the Tigon. Final choice: Symmetrix V-Max. So under the banner of “Overtake the Future” the announcement struck me as “Catching Up With the Past”. Wading through [...]
It’s Time to Hammer the Mainstream Media
Posted in Tech Talk on April 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
Who amongst us hasn’t been frustrated by the state of the mainstream media these days? Really! I mean, it’s been almost two years since we were introduced to that first tempting 1TB SATA drive. And now we’re looking at a whopping 1.5TB/2TB drives. Where is the progress here? Have the R&D budgets been slashed? Why [...]
