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One of the earliest things I’ve learned as I jumped into system management was the importance of standards; not only standards for equipment but also standards surrounding naming conventions.

One thing that always irritated me, as a end-user is none of the vendors every really had any real answers around cable and label management, at least not something you didn’t have to pay for a professional services engagement on.

I am here to declare that I am first to coin the term “JBOGs” – Just a Bunch Of Gigabytes for Cloud-based Storage. This is the same vain as “JBOD” – Just a Bunch of Disks which is a known term to us storage folk.

The woes of a storage monkey trying to decide which vendor technology solution is the most appropriate seem to go on for ever.

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Many of you guys out there have gathered a lot of digital information. This might be your private photo collections, home videos, scanned documents and your home administration. All sorts of data that sits somewhere on your computer(s) or NAS devices

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…

I just came across (yet another) good article by Kevin Beaver called Tests for securing the internal windows network .

Good Day….

The question is very simple: are you going to be dragged by the business people in your organization to introduce SaaS solutions into your IT management environment, or are you going to lead your organization to it?