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I hadn’t heard of this before a few days ago, when I was fact checking some of the info on Fujifilm’s video interview around its breakthrough with IBM in tape capacity.  I had thought that the IBM-Fujifilm tape capacity demonstration showed the application of PMR head technology to a new tape coating that used BaFe particles to achieve the great density improvement. 

Toxoplasmosis leads to bad behavior.  In fact, it makes us behave in a manner that is contrary to our own self preservation instinct.  According to the research I have been doing after reading about it in The Economist a few weeks ago, I am wondering if it is central to the continued success of vendors

I was hanging out in San Francisco airport yesterday on a flight delay and went into one of the magazine stores to check out the latest monthlies.  A bunch of them had the same full page ad from Oracle comparing a Sun server hosted Oracle DB with apps to an anonymous IBM “server” hosted Oracle DB with apps

Everywhere I have been recently, the FlashSSD pitchmen have been noisier and noisier.  Rob Peglar gave a great cautionary presentation on the subject at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago, where I also spoke on the agenda of Todd Vojta’s great Paragon Technology Summit.  Peglar noted several things that you should Google

I was perturbed when I learned that a video of the first truly fact-based analysis of tape backup versus de-dupe VTL-to-VTL replication, as presented by AT&T at the FujiFilm Global IT Executive Summit in Austin, TX, had been taken down by FujiFilm at the request of AT&T.  While no one from AT&T will say, I suspect that

I know I have been remiss in posting here.  Part of it was travel, part concern about the oil poised to roll up on my beach here in Florida.  I see many parallels between this disaster and what is happening in storage today, which I have addressed in my next column at Mainframe Executive.  I

The second part of my advice to the recently-launched Active Archive Alliance has been posted to ESJ.com today (or was it yesterday).  In any case, I am delighted that ESJ.com decided also to run concurrently a video clip from an interview I conducted a couple of months back with Molly Rector of Spectra Logic while

Last month, I recorded a series of videos for CA regarding mainframe tape, virtual tape, disaster recovery, and the mainframe experience that may be of interest to some readers here.  Curiously, I was on the web in two places at the same time yesterday — doing the web cast with the Active Archive Alliance and

Last week, ESJ.com published a video clip taken from an interview I did with Mark Urdahl of Virtual Instruments regarding the company’s efforts to improve IO efficiency both in FC fabrics and in x86 hypervisor environments.  Good stuff here.  Watch the entire interview at the C-4 Project when you get a chance, not just because it

Nashville is also in our thoughts today.  The city looks like a river and the stadium is the world’s biggest municipal swimming hole. I hope all of the larger firms in the area weren’t subscribed to the same DR hot site.  And I will be interested in hearing everyones disaster recovery stories after the water recedes