June 28, 2012 7:04 PM
Posted by: Sharon Fisher
cloud computing,
dropboxIn a move that has been expected for the past month -- and desired for much longer than that -- Google has made it possible for Google Docs users to edit documents offline and then synchronize them when the user logs back in again. Google called offline editing "one of its
June 27, 2012 11:45 PM
Posted by: Sharon Fisher
ediscovery,
government,
privacyAs you may recall, a few months back I did a piece on Massachusetts Governor and candidate (now Republican presidential nominee) Mitt Romney, talking about how he not only deleted all his email messages when he left office, but had his staff members
June 20, 2012 9:48 AM
Posted by: Sharon Fisher
disaster recovery,
fireWith data centers increasingly being built in less-urban areas, and with the increasing number of wildfires in recent years, this sort of disaster needs to be added to the panoply...
June 6, 2012 11:56 PM
Posted by: Sharon Fisher
backblaze,
facebook,
google,
netflix,
pod,
youtubeWhen you have a whole lot of stuff, you have two choices. You can get one really, really big box. Or, you can get a whole lot of little boxes, and find ways to use them efficiently -- like having them all be the same size so they're interchangeable, and finding a good way at indexing the stuff in...
