: About Me

I initially grew up in the lush countryside of East Sussex in the UK as a Farmers son and thats what I did until I was about 18. At this point we had to sell the Dairy unit which I was working with and decided that I wanted to pursue my interest in electronics and Computers. So off to College I went and have spent the last 17 years successfully working as a Senior Technical Specialist in high end IT solutions. (Windows, Citrix, Storage, virtualisation and so on).

I have always had an interest in writing and a friend of mine, Tim Webb, introduced me to Helium and here I am. I have written various articles, short stories and poetry in the past so this seems like a good way to continue this love.

Computers & Technology > Networking & IT Management Essential technology for enterprise data storage

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When we say Enterprise we are not talking about small amounts of data such as even the most avid home user might have on their PC's. Even though the basic storage device, the Hard Disk, continues to grow in its ability to store data, today it is common to have 500GB, even 1TB, (Yes that a Terrabyte which is a million, million bytes). Within enterprise type organisations the amount of data they use and generate continues to consume vast amounts of storage space, and there are two important things that they expect to be able to achieve with the information it represents. First it needs to be...

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