MDP Vodcast 1011
How do you store data long-term at the right price?
Long-term Data Retention
The Storage Alchemist Gets a Facelift
The Storage Alchemist has now a much simpler, cleaner look and feel thanks to my friends at Business Blender
Facebook Storage Infrastructure w/o FB IT Costs
In 2012 I did a blog post on Facebook going public. The premise of the piece wasn’t about the fad that surrounds social media or that a social media company was going public, it was that the group of IT practitioners that manage Facebook’s storage infrastructure had deployed something pretty amazing.
In 2009 I quoted a few simple stats:
Facebook had about 1 billion users - remember, each user has a mailbox for messagesUsers were… Read more »Innovation and Some Unfair Statements
This past week I read an article in Owler that called out some statements made by Sun co-founder Vinod Khosla.
In the article Vinod discusses innovation as well as the EMC / Dell acquisition. Vinod said that he hasn't see Dell, EMC or IBM innovate in the last 30 years. I take a bit of exception to that. I have worked for both EMC and IBM and… Read more »
Data Protection Innovation? - I Hardly Think So!
The other day I read yet another blog about the “old” ways vs. a “new” way to do data protection. The post was from startup Rubrik. Each post I read like this has great intentions. They start out with a bunch of new buzz words – the new one they talk about in this particular post, which I hadn’t heard yet, is “SLA Domains”.
As you read blog posts by companies who provide data… Read more »