Storage Nation

I was recently asked to look into Cloud Storage options for our organization and if it might fit in the future for some archives etc.   I checked out what was being offered by all the big names, AmazonS3, Google, I was eventualy led to  ParaScale and Zetta as what seemed to offer the best capabilites to an enterprise user.   The “storage” costs were as hyped, very cheap.  They run $0.25/GB and lower.  Compared to several dollars per Gig we pay Read More…

We have all collectively just made it through the toughest economic year and good riddance! To quote the comedian Lily Tomlin – “No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up”. We certainly have enough cynicism in the IT world but at the beginning of every new year I think most of us feel a moment of optimism. So I am going to go with that for right now.

This industry just keeps getting more interesting all the time.

A confession: I have been ego-googling to see what people are saying about my book . It feels odd to type castrate “dave hitz” into the search box. Even more disconcerting is that Google shows 40,500 web pages in apparent support of the idea. My favorite article so far—perhaps because of the headline—is this one: Bull castration, snake eaters, opium and a whorehouse: the life of storage guru Dave Hitz .