Because nothing is certain 
The best part of the MA special senatorial election is that it’s over – my home phone has been ringing for the past month with calls from both sides, from Tea Party Republicans to President Obama, urging me to vote for their candidate. And whether or not you agree with the outcome, there are lessons [...]
It didn’t take too long for the blogosphere to get enough pressure on Microsoft for it to take the NDA language off of the Azure cloud storage service SLA website. Two days after I blogged, the topic was picked up by The Register (here) and blogged about here by Roger Jennings at Oakleaf Systems. Blogger and consultant [...]
1/21/2010 – UPDATE to the story below: Microsoft removed the NDA language from the Azure cloud services website – see my most recent blog for details!
Over the course of business today I was stunned to come across this:
Digging into Microsoft Azure cloud storage services, I went looking for the SLA. Microsoft posts the SLA as a [...]
I am borrowing heavily from my ESG colleague Steve O’Donnell for this blog. If you don’t know him you should, Steve is the managing director of our EMEA practice and writes the very popular blog The Hot Aisle. Before joining ESG Steve was an SVP of IT Operations at a very big company – his [...]
I’ve been having some problems with my laptop. Big problems. Late last week, as our IT support guru Dan was saving my bacon (again) by fixing my laptop (again), he set me up with Dropbox. If you are not familiar with Dropbox, it is pretty straight forward. Dropbox allows me to upload my files and store them ”in [...]
Still digging out from taking Thanksgiving week off – but as I’ve been catching up on my reading this article in Monday’s Wall Street Journal certainly caught my eye. It is an excerpt of an interview with Dr. Peter Weill, chairman of the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Center for Information Systems Research. I found this section [...]
As discussed in my last blog, many storage vendors talk about storage tiering, but they often mean “in the box” tiering that supports a variety of drive types within a single array. Considering that most data only stays active for about 30 days after it is created, it makes sense to migrate that data to denser, [...]
The storage industry has an assortment of labels that describe the capability to align data storage performance, cost, and protection to the value of that data. The more valuable the data, the bigger and badder the system it’s stored on—at a higher price. As data ages and access slows or stops, it is moved to bulk [...]
We’ve all heard about the capacity savings that can be achieved with deduplication for backups and other secondary storage requirements. Some of those solutions do compression on top of deduplication to magnify the savings. But dedupe and compression take a lot of CPU horsepower and slow things down. The slow down can be managed for [...]
Last week the TV show Clean House was filming in my area (no, my house was not the target). For those of you not familiar with the show, it is pretty straightforward. The Clean House team goes into a particularly cluttered house (to put it mildly) and cleans out all the “stuff” that has accumulated, [...]
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