Before I say anything about SOPA, let me say that I am not battling SOPA because I’m into illegally downloading books/music/movies. As a provider of content (author of three books), I am strongly FOR paying for the media I use. And don’t give me that crap about it isn’t stealing cause you were never going…
I wrote a few months ago about what a difference the cloud has made for how I conduct business. I rarely buy software for my new company anymore; I often am paying for some type of cloud-delivered service. One of those services that I use (and love) is Dropbox. It is an incredibly easy replacement…
Veeam is one of the most innovative backup and recovery tools designed specifically for VMware and Hyper-V. They've also done a really good job of marketing this tool. In a matter of a couple of years, they've gone from "who's Veeam?" to the mindshare leader in this space. I'm not sure what they're actual market…
Dell is going to build a unified storage system that has everything you could want ever want in a mid-tier or enterprise-tier storage system. Or so said the presenters at Tech Field Day 7. Only time will tell. I was part of several bloggers visiting Dell's headquarters in Round Rock, TX (a short drive from…
VMworld is the new industry show. It is the show to attend and the show to exhibit at. I was really impressed. Here's a list of my thoughts about my trip there. Update: I re-read this blog post this morning and felt it was too harsh and didn't contain enough of my positive reaction to…
The title may surprise none of you, but it is actually the opposite of what I said 1.5 years ago in a blog post called Hyper-V ahead of VMware in the backup race. Back then I was concerned that VMware did not have full VSS support. They have since rectified that. [Update: by “full VSS…
I’m in the process of trying to convert my church’s use of an onsite file and email server to a cloud file synchronization service and a hosted Exchange service. I’ve chosen SugarSync, as that appears to have a little more flexibility than Dropbox, and Sherweb for the Exchange service, as that is what we’re currently…
Social media incidents cost a typical company $4 million over the past 12 months, according to the results of a Symantec survey published today. There have been a number of legal actions about social media in recent years, including a Financial Industry Regulation Authority (FINRA) regulatory notice, the Romano vs Steelcase Inc and Bass vs…
And now for something completely different. GE researchers have announced that they have successfully demonstrated a micro-holographic material that can support 500 GB in a DVD-style disc. That’s 20 times greater than most Blu-Ray discs (there is a Blu-Ray 100 in the works), and 100 times greater than DVDs. So does this have backup and…
I had a twitter chat with @JLivens the other day where the question was "what do you back up?" My first response was to, of course, say that I back up everything – thrice – cause I'm me. If you're curious, my critical personal data is synced on multiple computers with history using Dropbox (which…