Storage

One analyst firm says Microsoft Exchange's market share is growing. Another one says Exchange customers are jumping ship. Here's an alternative in case you're in the latter camp.

User comes to this pilot fish with 100 pages of hard copy that he needs to e-mail to a client -- which shouldn't be a big problem. ...

As a Macintosh business consultant, I've built up IT infrastructure for dozens of companies over the past few years. Most of these companies have been under 200 desktops and at least half Macintosh. I've just completed my first medium sized business move to Google Apps, and I have to say I am extremely pleased.

In fact, I find myself in a position to recommend the switch anyone out there is a similar situation.

It's IT Blogwatch: in which Seagate protects its intellectual property portfolio against a flash drive maker. Not to mention how not to fix a leak of personal information...

Intel displays its home server at SNW, which includes seven devices, from an Xbox 360 to an iPod Touch, all streaming movie video to a top-of-the-line Pioneer 50-inch plasma TV. Total price: $18,932.

Did storage giant EMC intercept the e-mail correspondence of a professor whose research found a link between sexual arousal in men and a willingness to take financial risk? And was that information the basis for the reported practice of EMC salespeople taking clients to strip clubs? No, of course not. The very suggestion is absurd. But you name it, and somebody will suggest it.

You will never go wrong if you take official forecasts and plan and prepare as if the event is at least one category higher than predicted.

Intel senior fellow Rich Coulson spoke at Storage Networking World this week about huge variances in the performance and longevity of solid state disk as well as an approaching economy of scale that will reduce prices by an order of magnitude.

Rabbits, white rabb-it's IT Blogwatch: in which the world goes to heck in a handbasket. Not to mention Portal in Flash...

Sir Richard Branson is over the moon:

I'm delighted today to announce Virgle, Inc., a joint venture between the Virgin Group and Google ... [its] goal is simple: the establishment of a permanent human settlement on Mars. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and I feel strongly that contemporary technology is sufficiently advanced to make such an effort both successful and economical, and that it's high time that humanity moved beyond Earth and began our great, long journey to explore the stars and establish our first lasting foothold on another world ...

Road-warrior user returns to his home office and reports to the local IT pilot fish that his cell phone was stolen at an airport -- and now he can't log into his laptop. ...

EMC's Joe Tucci may have gotten Red Sox players to wear the company's logo on their shirtsleeves during opening games in Tokyo this week, but he really needs to work on his pitching.

Is it just me or have people gotten a little too snap-happy?

(Off-topic alert: This post isn't about Microsoft, but then, life isn't entirely about Microsoft, is it?) Putting a 32GB SDHC card into a Palm Life Drive may make no more sense than putting a racing engine into a Model T, but if Dmitry Grinberg says he can do it, I believe him.

Instead of sending checks to early adopters of HD-DVD players, Best Buy should take the money and cut Blu-ray prices for all consumers.

Best Buy and other stores have made a really smart business move by handing out gift cards to consumers who purchased HD DVD players that no longer have a substantial future. They also did the right thing.