First a warning and my confession: don’t click on dodgy web links. I did, and a virus crippled my PC. Preface: As an IT analyst, I am always keen to find out smarter ways of using IT in practice. So you often hear wonderful things about new innovation. Someone may say: “aren’t you using XYZ, [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Confessions of an analyst
Jan 28
On January 25 2010, Symantec released new versions of both its main back-up families: Backup Exec and Netbackup. The new releases; Backup Exec 2010 as well as NetBackup 7 goes out on February 1; improved in the areas of de-duplication, server virtualisation and archiving. De-duplication: Based on the same de-duplication engine (PureDisk) both products offers [...]
This post is about cloud computing (referred to simply as cloud in this post), focusing on storage and content. The entire ITC industry talks cloud, so let me try to give my perspective. For customers the debate, at this stage, can operate safely on a hypothetical level exploring what this buzzword might entail. For people [...]