Storage

PNY announced this week that it was releasing a USB flash drive with the movie Ghostbusters on it. While it may only be a marketing ploy, it signals opportunity for the motion picture industry and users.

The secondary server in this computer room is having problems with its disk drives. Fortunately, there's a simple short-term fix: Reseat the drives. Then they'll last awhile and eventually fail again.

What would you do if you woke up one day and everything on your computer had reverted to its state one year before?

This specialty hardware company has a store about 60 miles from headquarters, with a PC that connects to the corporate mainframe across the Internet -- and one employee who's gullible and a bit dense.

This IT pilot fish heads a group responsible for backing up a large pool of servers with a huge amount of data. Then they're asked to help another group with its backup problem -- and a problem it is.

Yes, we want more than 512MB of storage with the Wii in order to store downloads, but we're not this desperate.

Data warehousing appliance vendor -- and recent Microsoft Corp. acquisition -- DATAllegro Inc.'s CEO Stuart Frost responded to the patent lawsuit filed against him and his firm via his blog very early Thursday morning.

Open-source database MySQL isn't the first platform most companies think of when considering a business intelligence platform. Yet, the Sun Microsystems Inc. product appears to be winning customers in the online advertising space.b

I've talked about it before. I think about it all of the time. A 128Gb SSD in my Macbook Pro. Why this isn't so far fetched.. (Dell)

A free monitoring tool from Hyperic will be a boon to those who depend on cloud-based services from Amazon.

In today's podcast: Microsoft changes purpose of Live Mesh; VMWare to release new deployment tool; and Sun exec calls for solid-state drive standards.

Open source backup software supplier Zmanda will archive your Oracle apps for $300 a server.

It's IT Blogwatch: in which del.icio.us finally releases its revamped 2.0 social bookmarking site. Not to mention the ultimate, mashed-up, attention-deficit music video...

Heather Havenstein reports:

Flashback to the mid-1980s, when this finance company's installation of more than 80 refrigerator-size tape drives has gone nuts with inexplicable errors that kill massive, long-running jobs.

It's IT Blogwatch: in which Amazon's "three-nines-reliable" S3 service was down for EIGHT HOURS, Sunday. Not to mention more Error'd...

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