© Credit: Charles Babbage Institute Thought I would just take a little trip down memory lane. Now I wasn't even born when this picture was taken but there are plenty of ancient historical images...

How many storage devices do you have? Let me see, I have: 7 USB thumb drives2 USB hard drives1 NAS2 mp3/storage players1 voice recorder Once you start to think about it, almost everything electronic...

© FreeWine It is good to be here, writing my first post, and venturing down this path of presenting what storage is, how we accomplish it, and where it is going. What is Storage - Literally the place...

We've seen the outdated predictions of how life will be in say 50 years, but how often are they right on the money? I found this particular video on Snopes.com, which is my go-to site for...

It's time once again to spread a little link love to the fellow storage bloggers sharing cyberspace with me. This week's group offer something from the more unique side of the business: All...

I'll be the first to admit it - I'm a storage blogger, but I can't hold a candle to the experts who have absorbed this industry like an oversized sponge. These are the guys and gals who I...

Blogs are great in that we're able to share ideas and build a community of information and camaraderie. As a storage blogger, I'm always on the lookout for fresh voices and ideas that can...

Why is it we just don't learn? An article at Data Storage Today showed the ugly truth - a recent Scott and Scott LLP study found that 46 percent of companies that had already experienced a data...

In nearly every survey asking "what are you top IT issues?", the issue of effective data mining in the midst of data overload appears. You'll also see mention of better integration,...

Another day, another round of buzz words. Industry jargon seems to propogate faster than venture capitalists during the IT boom. How ever will you keep up? Fear not, for writer/illustrator Paul...

Most IT managers handle huge volumes of data that are not always easy to sort through or monitor closely. How sure are you that the data you store does not contain someone else's copyrighted...

Imagine what it must have been like for businesses in New Orleans to recover their data post-Katrina. If they were smart, they had taken advantage of offsite storage. If they were even smarter, that...

This St. Patty's Day, some companies are wearing more green than others. Who'd have thought that green was possible in a data center? Beyond more efficient hardware, what's there to be...

Size Matters: Use The Right Tool: Your tools should amplify your productivity, not rob it. Whatever you choose think ROI. A great couple of (pseudo?) Real Life stories over at the Lone Sysaadmin....

Upstart could shake up networked storage | CNET News.com: First came Fibre Channel, then iSCSI. Now, for the increasingly popular idea of using a network to connect storage to servers, there's a...

Allow me to point you towards the first three parts of what appears to be an ongoing series on StorageMojo. Architecting Internet Data Centers - Pt. I: Architecting The Internet Data Center: Pt II...

Storage-server hybrids coming into vogue | CNET News.com: When designing a data center, conventional wisdom holds that servers should do the thinking while storage systems should hang onto the data....

Herding CA(T)S Caringo Launches Software-Only CAS Solution: EMC, with the help of software from the Belgian company FilePool that they acquired the previous year, sought to apply an indexing scheme...

Storage vendors rewrite the rules of the game | InfoWorld | Column | 2006-05-11 | By Mario Apicella: It seems inevitable, like death and taxes. Every year, storage vendors renew their portfolios,...

Hu Yoshida's Blog: What is on a CIO's mind?: While the easy (cheap?) answer is "Golf, expensive scotch, and a new BMW 7 series" I think we all know that that's probably not...

Data Backup Blog » Top 10 Data Recovery Bloopers: My personal favourites: 5) An Almost Perfect Plan The company purchased and configured a high-end, expensive, and full-featured library for the...