Well, that ever-present and unique smell of Vegas has finally worn off, as has my post-Interop exhaustion, so I’m ready to reflect on some of the highlights of the show. Specifically, I want to capture the sounds of Interop 2012, …
At the 2012 Interop, an IT conference grounded in the network, there is an increasing amount of cloud chat occurring. Not surprising, since cloud computing is seeping into nearly every IT conversation these days. On the expo floor, network stalwarts …
Now that a bit more information is available and I’ve had the opportunity to try it out, I’d like to follow up on my last post on Google’s new Drive offering. It is now clear that, like Dropbox, Drive offers …
Ah, the cloud . . . with images of blue sky, white puffy shapes and pure, clean air. For IT, the cloud was to save us from the evils of infrastructure build out. But alas, it turns out, the cloud …
EDIT: More information is available now and I’ve written an update and corrected the story below. As expected, Google Drive launched today with 5GB free cloud storage and 1TB for $49.99. That is aggressive pricing, but it does not fundamentally …
It was not easy to pick the top five from the great set of survey results covering data backup practices, problems and opinions. So I chose five interesting sets of findings. I encourage you to read the whole research, because …
Amid the hype and reality of cloud computing, we are witnessing the largest build out of centralized data center infrastructure in history. Due to the increased demand for cloud-based services and applications and the incredible growth of digital data, cloud …
Lucky Guests Join Symform Tour Symform celebrated Worldwide Backup Day with a tour of its RAID 96 worldwide data center for a lucky group of twenty one Symform customers and partners. [Invitations to this sought after tour are handled by …
SEATTLE, WA – APRIL 1, 2012 Symform today announced plans for their Fra Mauro Data Center – a redundant, highly-secure storage facility located in the Lunar crater of the same name. With a finalized contract for orbital launch and translunar shipping of data …
Symform and StorageCraft just announced and published a set of results from our 2012 Data Protection Trends Survey. This online survey was just conducted in February 2012, so the data is fresh, and we’ve been busy with analysis since then. …