Storage

It can be difficult to quickly highlight the key benefits of virtualzation to a management team if you don't fully understand them yourself. Outlined below are a few key benefits of virtualization that every tech savvy individual should know.

IBM/Lotus wants you to reconsider "Going Google". It's now offering a SaaS/cloud hosted email service, with similar functionality to Google Apps' Gmail -- but undercutting Google's price. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if it'll be more reliable than Gmail. Not to mention Tetris as you've never seen it before...
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Steve Ballmer hasn't exactly shined as Microsoft CEO, but he's confident enough in his business acumen to offer this stunningly bad piece of advice to IBM: It's time to get back into the hardware business. This, despite the fact that focusing on high-profit businesses like services and consulting has turned IBM back into a money-making powerhouse.

Every once in awhile a great technology idea comes along that makes me think: "Why didn't I think of that? " Last year's Pogoplug was certainly such an idea. It basically is small adapter that turns USB storage into not only a NAS, but it also turns it into a web file server share.

Well, this product just got better with their drive manufacturing partner Seagate.

The last time I checked, Seagate built and sold hard drives. So why would they market a backup solution that requires an exact duplicate drive instead of an upgrade when disaster strikes?

A Web developer needs to upgrade Web code for this company's largest client -- which shouldn't be a problem. All he has to do is pay a little attention.

IT department trainee gets the task of sorting through a pile of unlabeled recordable DVDs to identify the contents -- and with a permanent marker in hand, he disappears.

We know about the classic hardware and software that Snow Leopard leaves in the dust. But did you know you won't even be able to write to your old disks, either?

Toshiba's finally given in and will support Blu-Ray. It only took seven years. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers look forward to BD drives on their Tosh laptops.

By Richi Jennings. Your humble blogwatcher has selected these bloggy morsels for your enjoyment. Not to mention Helldog...

Despite what some bloggers are saying, the Windows 7 release date hasn't been canceled by Microsoft. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers get spun up about (gasp) a bug in Windows 7 RTM code.

By Richi Jennings. July 6, 2009.

Your humble blogwatcher has selected these bloggy morsels for your enjoyment. Not to mention recycling jolly old cellphones...

Hard drives are fragile, so it's important that the packaging protect them in transit. I recently had a mixed experience with this buying hard drives from Amazon.com.

Kingston's DataTraveler 300 is the "world's biggest" USB flash drive; it just launched in Europe. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers boggle over the size of the thing -- and at its insane price.

By Richi Jennings: your humble blogwatcher, who selected these bloggy morsels for your enjoyment. Not to mention movie mashups...

Caringo is giving away the latest version of its storage cluster software as well as a nifty tool for end users to protect and manage their files in the cloud.

The RIAA and Capitol Records have been awarded $1.92 million damages from Jammie Thomas-Rasset. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers marvel at how 24 songs can cost $80,000 each.

By Richi Jennings, your humble blogwatcher, who has selected these tidbits for your enjoyment. Not to mention Victoria Silvstedt: My Im-Perfect Life...

User calls this pilot fish to ask if IT has the external CD writer that belongs to the marketing department. Sure enough, IT does. But when fish arrives to return it, user has another question.