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Some days, I just feel like I'm out of the CTO loop. I see announcements for new "Web 2.0 Cloud Optimized Storage" and my brain gets all foggy trying to see through the new goofy buzzwords and trying to figure out what it's even for in the first place. Now, if you've met me then you know I'm a pretty cynical guy... although I personally prefer the term "pragmatic". Perhaps I need to go back for some remedial classes in being a public commenta...
Every day the economic news seems to get worse, from Wall Street last month to Detroit now. Enterprises are shrinking their staffs, cutting budgets, and forcing unpaid vacations. December is starting to look like one big month off for business, but data keeps pouring in. What to do? Last month Tony Pearson at IBM pointed out a silver lining for the financial crisis, the opportunity to stop and evaluate your storage purchase plans. I don't ag...
Energy efficiency is big news these days, and everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon. We have a Green Storage Initiative within the SNIA, there's The Green Grid consortium, and one of these days we may even have useful metrics on which we can compare different products. What's it all worth? A few months ago "green storage" was pitched as a way to feel good about yourself, in a CSR sort of way. Today, however, reducing operational costs is mo...
George Crump has a nice new article up on the differences between the backup and archive use cases, appropriately titled Backup vs. Archive. He succinctly makes the point that backup infrastructures are not appropriate for new archive storage initiatives because the characteristics of backups and archives are very different. A few months ago, in Two Types of Archives, I commented on a similar article, Archive Layer Cake by Chris Mellor over at ...