Archive for 2006
Virtualization platforms
Posted in Virtualization on February 11th, 2006 4 Comments »
Mike Linett, the President of ZeroWait Corporation sent the following email to me in regards to my post on Virtualization and commoditization.
Virtualization and Commoditization
Posted in Virtualization on February 5th, 2006 2 Comments »
CNET published a note on February 2, that EMC will announce this week that they will be giving away their GSX Server, which runs on host windows or Linux operating systems and allows guest operating systems to run on top in "virtual" machines. This move could benefit VMWare, by locking in their lead in server [...]
Name that Tune
Posted in Tech Talk on February 3rd, 2006 2 Comments »
I came across the following posting from HGST, and thought it might be interesting, if you haven’t already heard this before. It identifies the sounds of defective disk drives. You won’t hear these sounds in storage subsystems since they will have been preemptively spared out before the noise becomes noticable. Unfortunately if this noise is [...]
2500 Laps around the world in 10.1 sec!
Posted in Tech Talk on January 31st, 2006 No Comments »
Last week EMC announced that they will be shipping a 500GB Low Cost FC disk in their new large capacity DMX-3. This system will contain 2400 disk drives. With 500GB disks that will hold a petabyte of data! All within one frame. Three or four years from now when Terabyte capacity disks will be the [...]
I get no respect
Posted in Tech Talk on January 25th, 2006 4 Comments »
Recently I had occasion to speak at a reseller event. During the presentation I noticed one young lady who seemed to be listening intently to my every word, nodding her head whenever I made a point about TagmaStore technology. With this type of feedback, I felt sure I was really getting through to this audience. [...]
Data Replication: When Push comes to Pull
Posted in Best Practices, Virtualization on January 17th, 2006 7 Comments »
A recent comment to Drunkendata by an end user Snig points out that due to the "inter-twangle" of applications, the biggest issue or problem for application recovery is that he can’t recover all his "inter-twangled" applications to the same point in time (or very close to it). This requires him to spend a lot of [...]
To Encrypt or not encrypt
Posted in IT Security on January 9th, 2006 3 Comments »
Lucas Mearien of Computer World reported that ABN Amro Mortgage Group Inc, will no longer send data tapes to its credit reporting bureaus after one of its tapes went missing. The company’s CEO Thomas Goldstien is quoted as saying "the company will encrypt data and send it over secure networks when possible.."
Toothless hand wringing
Posted in Tech Talk on January 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
Terry Sweeney posted Welcome to the Data Theft Bowl about the same time I noticed that my Marriott Vacation Club International membership information may have become more internationally known than I intended. He notes that the industries commitment to data privacy and responsible handling of sensitive personal information appears to be lip service, and few [...]
