I ride a commuter train to and from work every day. And, every day, on the way home, two passengers spend 30 minutes vehemently debating Obamacare. Each states his case passionately and coherently. With the same arguments. Every day. For two consecutive months. Neither person has changed his beliefs. At all. For two consecutive months. ...

It never ceases to amaze me how much discussion the words “tape is dead” can still stir up. In the last couple of days alone, I received several emails from leading industry media and analyst outfits with links to a variety of articles, podcasts and even videos on the topic. One of the links brought ...

Do you ever wonder… “Are my disk-based backups safe?  Are my backups teetering towards a fall, like a high wire act? Since Data Domain took the backup and recovery industry by storm in 2001 we have witnessed the general decline of physical tape systems as EMC Data Domain purpose built backup appliances (PBBAs) with inline ...

For the past couple of weeks now, my colleagues and I have been talking about the past, present and future of backup. A good deal of this conversation has centered on the lightning-fast adoption of purpose-built backup appliances (PBBA) worldwide. And while there’s no question PBBA isn’t your grandmother’s backup and recovery, is it really ...

When I was younger, I believed chronicling the past was far simpler than predicting the future. Little did I know that “history” means “incessant squabbling over what really happened in the past” (did you know there are multiple active magazines about the American Civil War?). On the other hand, people very rarely check on the ...

Greetings from Europe! I had a bit of an unusual experience the other day.  I was the first one into a conference room and on one of the chairs was a life jacket. No explanation – just sitting there. Of course, I found it a funny commentary on some of the meetings we have at ...

If your life is anything like mine, it’s a whirl of activity, and weekends are no exceptions. My Saturdays are consumed with yard and house-related chores, leaving Sundays to menu planning, food shopping and meal prepping (okay, to be fair, I don’t do as much “prepping” as I do “planning”). So, when I see the ...