Enter the Aggregators

The other news item I alluded to in the previous post is a little company called Nasuni.  I chatted with them at the urging of the smartest PR person in the business, Judy Smith at JPR Communications, a couple of days ago and I thought I would share my views here. Here is a pretty picture

Everything We Need to Know About How to Screw Up IT…

We learned as kids.  Here is an article I wrote about it in Mainframe Executive, which has been cross-posted to MainframeZone. I am also pleased that an article by moi — the REAL storage blogger wannabe — has just hit the wire at ESJ.com.  It covers file proliferation and the lame efforts of the industry to scale

So Much for “Getting Along”

So, Sepaton has a funny on YouTube about a tape ejecting from a PC drive and killing Don, the IT guy.  I guess that this is an example of how a company uses “new media.” Hmm. To go along with this video, the company just released the results of a survey of 400 IT folks in the

Cheers for Digital Reef

It has been a little over six months since I did my first investigations of Digital Reef, purveyors of a great piece of software for sorting the junk drawer into class-based categories.  I interviewed them on camera for a multi-segment discussion of what they were about and how their technology worked for the first wave

My Bad, ProStor

Curtis Chan called me Friday to nudge me to write something about ProStor, the guys who have made arrays out of removable laptop hard disks. They had sent me an external USB-connected unit and one hardened disk cartridge (about the size of a pack of cigarettes) just before Christmas and I promised to put it