From the monthly archives: January 2009

Job Losses: EMC Joins The Club

By On January 13, 2009 · 5 Comments · In Uncategorized

EMC have finally announced that they will be following the industry trend and cutting staff. Approximately 7% (2400) of the workforce will go. The cuts are widely reported (here for instance) and at their earliest were forecast by Stephen Foskett in his December post.

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Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds – Pt III

By On January 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

In my two previous articles I discussed Cloud Storage and the concept of using middleware to store multiple copies of data across different service providers. In this final part, I’d like to discuss the whole issue of security.

Using “the cloud” to store data [...]

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Personal Storage: Goodbye to Old Friends

By On January 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

I like to use the Christmas holidays as an excuse for a good old-fashioned cleanout. This invariably means burning (shredding takes to long and we don’t have a hamster) old paperwork and junking lots of defunct technology.

I tend to hoard stuff, however I have got my miscellaneous technology down to four crates. Being [...]

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Enterprise Computing: RAID Is Not Enough

By On January 5, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Uncategorized

Happy New Year and welcome back to all my readers!

I’ve been messing about with some old hard drives this week and unusually for me, one is sounding decidedly sickly. I’ve never had a personal hard drive go on me (I guess I always upgrade/move on before it happens), but [...]

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