Jerome M. Wendt: August 2008 Archives
Replication and deduplication are features that are fast becoming necessities when disk libraries are introduced into enterprise IT backup environments. But as I brought out in a previous blog entry, introducing multiple functions into disk libraries intended for enterprise caliber backup environments typically has some unpleasant trade-offs. A primary concern in enterprise IT shops is how large (or small) to initially configure the solution so companies neither overspend on oversized hardware nor purchase undersized hardware that cannot scale to meet their future requirements, so they need some way to forecast how their IT environment is going to look going forward. (read more)
The "all-in-one" concept is one of the hottest trends in consumer technologies. Just looking at the gadgets and devices that I use on a day-to-day basis in my office, I am hard pressed to find one that does not perform multiple tasks. My office phone supports two lines, has a separate voice message box for each line and tracks all of my incoming and outgoing calls. My printer is not just a printer. It prints, copies, scans and faxes. Then, of course, there is my Blackberry which acts as a cell phone, email client, web browser, calculator, personal organizer (contacts/phone book) and a host of other functions that I have not even had time to figure out yet. (read more)
