Posts Tagged ‘backup’
How Long Do I Keep This Stuff Around?
One of the most frustrating issues for IT staff (an issue that continues to drive sales of storage [disk or tape]), is how long data has to be kept around. Anyone who has ever moved has been faced with closets, attics and basements full of stuff that they have paid to be moved or stored, that they have not looked at or used in years! No one is making us keep this stuff, and yet we do. We also do not have to keep most of those backups and emails either. The only reason we do is for the same reason that we keep the stuff around the house – no one wants to throw it out. Read More »
Since When Did iTunes Become a Corporate Asset?
Recently a colleague of mine asked the following question of our circle of techies: “What backup program do you use to back up your music from your work PC?” I had to stop and think for a moment, before I realized that while there were plenty of viable answers (Connected, Syncplicity, Mozy, Carbonite, and various NAS solutions), we were all missing something larger here. WHY was the music on the work machine in the first place? Read More »
Intro to My Journey to the Cloud Blog
Here is the first of many postings on the gripping topic of…storage. Yes, there are a few of us out there talking about one array vs. another, one new technology vs. another, puncturing marketing hype, blah, blah, blah.
I hope to stand out from some of the other, by virtue of the fact that I really worked as a storage and backup administrator for years, trying to figure out how expert and informed storage design and administration could help fulfill business needs and requirements. Read More »
