By Calvin Zito An often overlooked gem in HP's storage portfolio is HP Data Protector. I sat down to talk data protection of virtual machines and more specifically of VMware with Billy Naples, the HP Data Protector Product Marketing Manager. Billy knows data protection and this was a fun discussion...
By Calvin Zito Yesterday I talked about the announcement that our Technology Solutions Group did and briefly mentioned the part HP StorageWorks had in that announcement. Today, I'll drill down a bit more into the StorageWorks news. The current economic conditions are affecting everyone but we all...
By Jon Canfield Everyone knows that backing up data is important, yet many either put it off, or worse, put blind faith into the integrity and durability of their drives and don’t even consider backups. As pro or serious photographers in the digital age, backing up our images isn’t just smart, it’s critical...
Last month we announced a world record SPC-2 number by the XP24000. At the same time we extended yet another challenge to EMC to join the rest of the world in publishing benchmarks. They continue to decline the offer, arguing “representativeness” . I thought I’d clear up the “representativeness” question...
By Lee Johns I live in Houston and this week we had an event that really brought home the importance of a good disaster recovery & backup strategy for storage. Hurricane Ike came through and took down the power to more than two million people. In Galveston businesses had over nine feet of water in...
Hi Folks, Yesterday I received a letter in the mail at home that started off: Dear Sir or Madam, We are writing to let you know that computer tapes containing some of your personal information were lost while being transported to an off-site storage facility by our archive services vendor. While we have...
When there are no more natural disasters! When electricity is free! When hardware never fails! When software is bug-free! When people no longer make mistakes! When there are no computer viruses or other malicious code! When all people are honest! When government regulations (SarbOx, SEC, HIPPA. etc....
By Jon Canfield Last week the inevitable happened. One of my hard drives died with a screeching whine. I could almost visualize the heads crashing into the disk platters as it went out. I wish I could say this was the first drive failure I’ve experienced, but the sad truth is that I’ve had several of...