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The Environment Still Matters

by Sunshine on February 22, 2010 in Analyst, Blogroll, Featured, Ocarina, Uncategorized, green IT

With all the talk about the data inconsistencies around climate change theory, one issue that I’d hate to see lost in the shuffle is the actual environment. That is, while I personally have been skeptical for some time about the alarmist tone many scientists took regarding global warming, it would be a shame if there [...]

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Storage News and Views, October 23

Storage News and Views, October 23

by Sunshine on October 23, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage, cloud

What a long, strange trip it’s been for storage recently. First, there was the disaster that turned out to be less of a disaster than we thought. All those Paris Hilton phone numbers and Perez Hilton black book emails lost to a Sidekick in the ribs … But then it turned out all was not [...]

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Where’s The Growth? Storage!

Where’s The Growth? Storage!

by Sunshine on September 27, 2009 in Storage, cloud

Friday’s CNBC segment is worth a watch if you’re wondering where the greatest growth will be over the next decade in the technology sector. “Everything that we are using now–videos on YouTube. Everything we’re doing on our phone. On and on. It’s all about storage and putting stuff on the net,” opines Roger Nusbaum of [...]

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Chase Tape Fail

by Sunshine on August 7, 2009 in Storage, cloud

Not so funny story. My dad called me up today and told me that he received a letter from his credit card company, Chase. The letter stated that one of their tape backups had been lost. That tape contained information including his name, address, and social security number. The tape was held in a vendor’s [...]

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It’s Getting Cloudy up There

by Sunshine on July 24, 2009 in cloud

Seems Uncle Sam is trying to tighten his belt through cloud computing. Government, at both the federal and state level, is debating how to make better use of this cost-cutting innovation. As we reported a few weeks ago, there are already some initiatives coming down the pike, such as Nirvanix providing cloud storage for NASA [...]

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Reaching the Moon Through the Cloud

Reaching the Moon Through the Cloud

by Sunshine on July 3, 2009 in cloud

A story caught my eye this morning that I just couldn’t help but blog about. Dave Simpson over at InfoStor is reporting that our friends at Nirvanix are providing cloud storage for a NASA mission to orbit the moon! As Simpson points out this is perhaps the most creative usage of cloud storage we’ve seen. [...]

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Blog Review – Storagebod

by Sunshine on June 16, 2009 in Blogroll

Note: this is the first in a series of posts on the blogs that make up the Online Storage Optimization blogroll. Please look out for future reviews of other storage bloggers. Every once in awhile I find myself enjoying a blog so much that I end up reading several posts in one sitting. Such was [...]

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Cloud Storage Revisited

by Sunshine on February 13, 2009 in Storage

If Tom Lehrer could have an album called “Revisited” then there’s no reason why this blog can’t do the same thing with a piece by Carter George on cloud storage. When we ran this post last May, cloud storage was an important topic of discussion. Since then, the blogo-tweet-o-sphere has exploded, with numerous posts per [...]

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Looking back at the year of the cloud

by Mike Davis on January 21, 2009 in Storage

In the past year, we’ve seen a massive shift toward the cloud as a viable and trustworthy storage option for many small to medium-sized businesses. As Chris Preimesberger notes in his recent post that 2008 was “all about capacity and the cloud.” Meanwhile, Chuck’s Blog is predicting a new emergence of the “private cloud” which will take the place [...]

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The impending storage crunch

The impending storage crunch

by Mike Davis on July 28, 2008 in Storage, Storage optimization

No one can miss the fact that data storage is spiraling upward at a terrifying rate. Joerg Hallbauer puts it on Dell‘s Future of Storage blog hit the nail on the head with his post: “We are running out of places to put things.” Citing data collected by IDC, Hallbauer concludes that in a mere [...]

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