This guest post was provided by Sean McCreary on behalf of GFI Software Ltd. For more information about GFI business backup solution visit http://www.gfi.com/business-backup-software
When most companies think about disaster recovery, a variety of thoughts come to mind. If you search for a definition of disaster recovery, you will get slightly different meanings [...]
It’s funny how a small comment made in a blog post strikes a note with people in different ways. In this post on the potential Sun acquisition by IBM, I made the comment “tape doesn’t have a long-term strategic future in anyone’s business”. D_Ced picked up on this and questioned me about it [...]
A quick Tweet with Chris Mellor just reminded me of something I touched on a few months ago but always meant to write about in more detail. It’s a semi-serious analogy (it is Friday after all) but there’s a hint of the possible about it, so here goes.
We’re [...]
I’ve another great idea for a software product (I have these ideas from time to time, but converting them into reality always proves difficult).
So, museum environments for backups. They’re going to be a major headache going forward, even more than they are today as there are more demands on the timely keeping and retrieval [...]
Following on from a previous post on RAID and backup, I’ve been doing some more thinking on how to back up consumer data from a PC workstation. I reckon I’ve got about over 200GB of data on my server, which previously was on my main workstation. I dabbled with the Linksys NSLU2 however I hated [...]
Just read Robin Harris’ post at his new blog location; http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=116 and his comment on another blog discussing RAID. He quotes a VAR who has tracked disk failures and thinks RAID is an expensive luxury for desktops.
It’s interesting to see the failure rates quoted, anywhere from 1-3%, which on the face [...]
It seems that the world is moving to Exchange for email messaging. Unfortunately there are some of us still using Lotus Notes/Domino.
As a messaging product, it seems to me to be reasonably efficient; our Domino servers can support upwards of a thousand users, perhaps 1-2TB of Notes mailboxes. Domino stores the mailboxes as [...]
I’ve spent the last few weeks being heavily involved in a storage performance issue. Unfortunately I can’t discuss the details as they’re too sensitive (in fact, I can’t even mention the TLA vendor in question), however it did make me think more about how we validate a storage architecture design will actually work.
As part [...]
Popular Posts
- Netapp: The Inflexibility of Flexvols (5,808)
- Back to Blogging (3,841)
- The technical solution is not always the best (3,369)
- Enterprise Computing: Why Thin Provisioning Is Not The Holy Grail for Utilisation (3,034)
- Data ONTAP 8.0 – Part III (2,990)
- Comparing iSCSI Targets – Microsoft, StarWind, iSCSI Cake and Kernsafe – Part I (2,528)
- Solid State Arrays: Pure Storage Inc (2,437)
- EMC Releases All Flash VNX (2,312)
- Review: Compellent Storage Center – Part II (2,210)
- Who Will Be The First Solid State Array Vendor To Be Acquired? (2,034)
