Hu's Blog

After my last post about the loss of backup tapes containing personal information, including my own, at Marriott Vacation Club International, Anil Gupta asked me if I would feel more comfortable if the data was encrypted and lost. (He had heard that the data was not encrypted.)

I have been a very happy owner of a share of Marriott’s Newport Coast Villas. Whether I continue to be happy will depend on a letter of notification that Marriott Vacation Club International may send me in the next few days regarding the loss of backup tapes which they sent offsite. MVCI did issue a [...]

The week between Christmas and New Years is a pretty boring time in the office. The few people that are in, take long lunches in between budget planning exercises. So I was surprised and excited when my blogging buddy, Jeremiah, told me that Robert Scoble and Shel Israel were coming over for Lunch, to talk [...]

Some of the comments I got back from my last blog post said that the storage virtualization discussion is old hat and I need to move on to newer topics.  While the topic of storage virtualization has been around for years, the approach of leveraging this existing feature in a tier one storage controller and [...]

When I opened up my Feedreader today, I found that I had just been given a new distinction. I was voted the “Worst Corporate Blogger” by Anil Gupta on Network Storage. I was given this vote based on my blog on Where Should intelligence reside? I was trying to make the point that intelligence needs [...]

A debate often arises between, server, network, and storage vendors about where “intelligence” should reside. “Intelligence” in this context is associated with virtualization. The simple answer is that intelligence needs to reside at all three levels. However, intelligence needs information to act upon in order to provide value or functionality like virtualization. The question should [...]

Senators Arlen Specter and Patrick Leahy Introduced the Personal Data Privacy And Security Act Of 2005.