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Install Addendum Enable VT in BIOS An addendum to install steps defined in my previous post OpenStack: Quick Install using DevStack i...

Though not a recommended method for installing OpenStack for production, DevStack offers an easy method to install and run an OpenStack clo...

OpenStack is made up of several projects that together build up the OpenStack cloud. Three core components are Compute, Storage, and Network...

I am back after an extended break from blogging about data storage topics. As I am no longer working at Quantum , I am free to blog about th...

... Continuation of my previous post on CORE deficiencies and how it could be improved upon. What is CORE? Let's look at originally def...

Steve Kenniston of Storwize made detailed comment in response to my last post Why does CORE fail? Part 1 . I thought my response to his comm...

Recently, David Vellante at Wikibon wrote in his blog post Dedupe Rates Matter ... Just Not as Much as You Think about his Capacity Optimiz...

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Initially, I was going to post a comment on Chris Evan's recent post 2V or Not 2V (vendors this is) . With the increasing length of the ...

Adaptec PR firm sent a note mentioning that Adaptec Storage Advisor's blog is back! Check it out. I am also trying to get back to updat...

During my visit to Denver few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to talk with folks working with online backup and archive cloud services. So...

Week in Denver I will be in Denver this week till Friday June 27th. Unfortunately, I will miss nPost Golf 2.0 event in Seattle. Despite a b...

As expected from conference schedule, Google conference turned out to be a technical event primarily focused on parallel programming and inf...

My last post Online Backup any different from Traditional Backup for Laptop/Desktop? was quickly turned in to us vs. them argument by Beth...

Recently, Beth Pariseau wrote in her blog post HP unveils unlimited online storage for SOHO market that bandwidth is one of the hurdles in ...

Recently, Nathan Kaiser at nPost contacted me regarding his new widget displaying Startup Jobs on blogs. As sidebar on my blog is already t...

In my last blog post , I estimated the data stored on Amazon S3 in exabyte range using 18 billion objects stored reported by Amazon CTO, Wer...

Today, Werner Vogels mentioned in his blog post Happy Birthday, Amazon S3! about the second birthday of Amazon S3 and also shared that by ...

This weekend, I read NY Times article Video Road Hogs Stir Fear of Internet Traffic Jam . Last year, by one estimate, the video site YouTube...

Last week, Ethan Oberman alerted me to his online storage service SpiderOak after coming across my post Online Backup Services - What'...