Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Surviving A Down Economy - A vendor Perspective

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

The outlook on the economy continues to be less than stellar. The National Bureau of Economic Research formally declared that we are in a recession. Thanks guys for stating the obvious! Tough times create difficulties for everyone. We have already seen vendors including NetApp, Quantum and ...

10 Things I Am Thankful For

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

The Thanksgiving holiday is a time to reflect on things that you are thankful for and so I figured that this would be a great topic for my one blog post this week. 1. That the Somali pirates have not hijacked SEPATON although Bloomberg suggests in a humorous press release that Citibank ...

How a lack of innovation put Overland under water

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

I wanted to post a quick commentary on Overland Data. I recently ran across this post over at The Register that discusses the fact that Overland Data is at risk of being delisted from the NASDAQ due to a stock price below $1. (Ticker: OVRL, currently $.45) In a past life, I ...

AboutRestore.com recognition

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

W. Curtis Preston from Glasshouse and author of the Mr. Backup Blog recently posted an article about the blogs that he frequents. I was honored that he recognized AboutRestore.com along with blogs from other major vendors. Curtis mentioned his frustration with the comment filtering policies on some blogs and I ...

Exchange deduplication ratio guarantee

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Scott over at EMC recently posted his thoughts about deduplication ratios and how they vary widely. I agree with his assessment that compression ratios, change rates and retention are key ingredients in deduplication ratios. However, he makes a global statement, “If you don't know those three things, you ...

Why is this blog called About Restore?

Friday, July 18th, 2008

You might be wondering why I choose the name About Restore for this blog.  The primary objective of data protection is restore. Sure you backup data every night, but you do this so you can restore the data. A recent situation reminded me of this. I manage numerous programs ...

Welcome to the new blog!

Friday, July 18th, 2008

This blog will focus on the industry where I work, Storage and more specifically data protection.  The comments here are my own.  Comments and feedback are always welcome.