storage solution in comment and analysis
Tech Visions: New media floods firms' networks
Comment IT departments are going to be surprised by what companies like Amazon are doing with their web services," says Robertson referring to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Simple DB, and Elastic Compute Cloud. [19 Feb 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Look out for the little guy
Comment In principle this offers the perfect solution to the storage needs of the small office/home office (SOHO), by providing mirrored disks which can be attached directly to the network as either a highly reliable storage server or a backup device. [05 Jan 2006]
Devil's Advocate: A new 'soft' technology
Comment Given the limitations of data storage and retrieval, Martin Brampton tries out a new way of organising his life with a rather old technology - paper. In fact, I suspect that it is similar to the data that is stored in online storage systems. [04 Oct 2005]
Minority Report: The filth and the fury of the Apple loyal
Comment It recently upgraded products its Xserve server range, introduced Xsan, an enterprise storage solution, and dedicated a section on its website to IT pros. Apple is known almost as much for its loyal fan base as for its innovative products. [04 Feb 2005]
Security Q&A: Your questions answered (Part 1)
Comment Thomas Janacek asks: "I am wondering if there is a quick and easy way to disable access to USB storage devices. I am concerned that with the large storage available on very small USB devices it is easy to dump a lot of data within a few minutes on... [04 Aug 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Energy worries
Comment Some look to hydrogen as the future energy solution, but it is unlikely to be the panacea, as it requires a considerable amount of storage volume per unit of energy converted and is therefore unsuitable for existing aircraft and surface vehicle... [29 Jul 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Storage meets business
Comment Like IT itself, a recent trend in storage is to make it strongly influenced by business priorities. For a while, there was a danger that (like many good ideas) it would be turned into a sales vehicle by the storage vendors' marketing departments. [11 Jun 2004]
Through the fog... The digital home
Comment DRM goes hand in hand with media asset management - the proper exchange of media information (including organisation, browsing, storage, search and selection) across disparate devices. Broadband connection on your PC, your video and Little Johnny’s... [07 Nov 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Overwhelmed by data
Comment Storage devices are giving us ever greater raw capacities but that can be as much a problem as a solution. IT managers figured out long ago that only a small minority of users create storage burdens that need to be controlled. [21 Oct 2003]
Through the fog… Management of utility IT
Comment It should be possible, for example, to reallocate server time or storage space without running off to several different consoles in other buildings. Storage as a service For now, consider it as the latest incarnation of delivering IT as a service... [01 Aug 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Bluetooth shenanigans
Comment Ideally, all digital cameras would do this, as it is far more convenient than messing with wires or pulling storage media in and out. While PC cards were used for Bluetooth connectivity in the early days, the neatest and cheapest solution is now... [21 Jul 2003]
Through the fog... Automated speech recognition
Comment These embedded command and control systems sound very clever but in fact the number of commands they need to recognise is relatively small, so data storage and processing power is not a big issue. In order to understand the ASR space, we need to... [21 Feb 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Going private, nano-disks and CA's new flexibility
Comment Disk technology based on a moving head that hovers over a spinning disk is reaching its physical limits and if greater density of storage is to be achieved a different mechanism is required. Small big storage* [31 Jan 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Save everything - but don't be tidy!
Comment With storage now so cheap should companies even be thinking about deleting old data? The good news is that it doesn't seem to matter - our storage technology is keeping ahead of our ability to create even more junk. [23 Jan 2003]
Ovum On: Wireless spam
Comment Limited storage on handsets means that if an inbox is full of spam, users risk missing legitimate messages. There is no immediate 'catch all' solution to wireless spam. The use of a range of technical measures will allow operators to experiment to... [17 May 2002]
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