Courtesy of The Register, I followed their link to a company called Delkin (the data Belkin?) who are touting their premium Blu-Ray disks (BD-R) with a lifetime of 200 years (and 100 years for their DVD-R disks).
Now, this all sounds wonderful; a “guaranteed protection over time” (whatever that [...]
Continue Reading This Post →You will remember that I recently posted a comment about migration costs, specifically with relation to Incipient. My view was (and still is) that the majority of migration costs come from preparatory and remedial work rather than execution of the migration. Well, Incipient asked for [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Sun recently announced that they will be putting solid state disks into all of their server and storage range of hardware. EMC already have solid state drives for DMX-4, which was announced in January this year. EMC have also stated [...]
Continue Reading This Post →A comment posted to my previous blog entry reminds me of a requirement I’ve had for some time from Fibre Channel. In the “Good Old Days” in my first working life as a mainframe systems programmer, I could very easily see a breakdown of response time against each storage device [...]
Continue Reading This Post →I’ve not paid much attention to Incipient (their news page doesn’t provide an RSS feed, so there’s no chance of me seeing their press releases easily), but my attention was recently drawn to a recent release relating to their iADM and iNSP products (catchy names, those).
Now, if you want [...]
Continue Reading This Post →As a contractor/consultant I can totally relate to this list; I’m sure many of you can too.
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I’ve been doing a lot of travelling recently (rather a lot in fact), mostly in Europe, with a little in the UK between airports. European trains are much better than their UK counterparts – they are reliable, clean, comfortable (note I didn’t claim they were fast) and their cost structure is simple to understand. No [...]
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