We have written about this in the past but it’s getting more interesting every day. Just this week we read another article in MIT Technology Review about How a New Science of Cities is Emerging from Mobile Phone Data Analysis. … Continue reading →
StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Greg others books Select Part II Until the focus expands to data protection What to do about it January 30, 2014 1:44 am Print PDF Part II Until the focus expands to data protection What to do about it This is the second of a three-part series read part I here about how vendors are keeping backup alive , however what they can and should do to shift and expand the conversation to data protection and related . themes Modernizing data protection and what to do about it Building off of what was mentioned in the first post , lets take a look at what can be done including expanding the conversation around data protection in support of business continuance BC disaster recovery DR high availability HA business resiliency BR not
StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Greg others books Select Part III Until the focus expands to data protection Taking action January 30, 2014 1:44 am Print PDF Part III Until the focus expands to data protection Taking action This is the thrid of a three-part series read part II here about how vendors are keeping backup alive , however what they can and should do to shift and expand the conversation to data protection and related . themes Modernizing is more than simply swapping one technology for another As I have said for a couple of years now , modernizing data protection or data protection modernization if you prefer is more than simply deduping or swapping out media , mediums , tape , disk , clouds , software or services like a recurring flat tire on
StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Greg others books Select Data Protection Diaries My data protection needs and wants January 30, 2014 1:44 am Print PDF Blog post : Data Protection Diaries My data protection needs and wants Rather than talking about what others should do or consider for their data protection needs , for this post I wrote down some notes using my Livescribe about what I need and want for my environment . As part of walking the talk in future posts I’m going to expand a bit more on what I’m doing as well as considering for enhancements to my environment for data protection which consists of cloud virtual and . physical Why and what am I Protecting Livescribe notes that I used for creating the following content What is my environment Server
StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Greg others books Select Welcome to the Data Protection Diaries www.dataprotectiondiaries.com January 30, 2014 1:42 am Print PDF Welcome to the Data Protection Dairies www.dataprotectiondiaries.com This is a series of posts about data protection which includes security logical and physical backup restore , business continuance BC disaster recovery DR business resiliency BR along with high availability HA archiving and related topic themes , technologies and . trends Think of data protection like protect , preserve and serve information across cloud virtual and physical environments spanning traditional servers , storage I O networking along with mobile ok , some IoT as well SOHO SMB to . enterprise Getting started ,
A recent National Geographic article on recent research into the brain (February 2014) said something which I find intriguing. “Producing an image of an entire human brain at the same resolution [as a mouse brain] would consume nearly half of the world’s … Continue reading →
I have to admit it. I have been a Mac and Apple bigot since 1984. I saw the commercial for the Mac and just had to have one. I saw the Lisa, a Mac precursor at a conference in town … Continue reading →
, StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Greg others books Select IT and data center sustainability , the other convergence zone January 24, 2014 10:53 am Print PDF IT and data center sustainability convergence Recently Hailey Lynne McKeefry HaileyMcK Editor in Chief over at Data Center Acceleration DataAccelerate reached out for a conversation about well , data center themes and topics . Given Hailey’s background in covering technology as well as business supply chain we somehow ended up talking about business , IT and data center sustainability Hailey wrote a piece about Driving for Datacenter Sustainability and in addition I was honored to be an invited guest for a live on-line chat yesterday you can view the conversation here Excerpt from Haileys : piece
If you still have a few floppy drives left over after making your Floppy Drive CNC machine have a look at making some music by making a Floppy Disk Jukebox! ”The overall setup is completly modular. Each floppy is connected to its own floppy driver (rrfdc), which in turn speaks I²C with the […]
, StorageIOblog Home StorageIO.com site StorageIO.TV Audio Video About Greg others books Select Securing your information assets and data , what about your storage January 21, 2014 2:33 pm Print PDF Securing your information assets and data , what about your storage Recently I did a piece over at the site Information Security Buzz title How Secure Is Your Data Storage that takes a cursory look at securing your digital assets from a storage perspective . Keep in mind that data protection can mean many things to different people from various focus or technology domain perspectives . Likewise there are various threat risks to protect against and , not all of them are head-line news making . events Protecting data and data protection Protecting your data or data protection is a diverse topic