Could possible be one of the funniest things I have ever seen on network TV!  Is this guy for real or does he have a severe mental handicap?

You can download the video here

The video is an .flv you will need a flash player.  If you need an multimedia player that supports .flv I suggest VLC meida player (VideoLAN Client) alternatively you can download a standalone FLV Player from here.

This was sent to me a by a friend. I thought is was worthy of a blog posting.

Those of us who have a need to migrate or copy data in a Windows environment have become quite familiar with Microsoft’s robust file copy utility (aka - Robocopy).  I stumbled across this GUI for Robocopy a week or so ago and I thought I would share it with you.

You can grab a copy of the Robocopy GUI from here.

I have been quite for a while, but I have been working behind the scenes on some pretty cool stuff which should him my blog in the coming weeks.  Some good videos and a white paper or two.  In the meantime, I thought I would offer up some conjecture on the HDS’s acquisition of Archivas.

On February 6th, 2007 HDS (Hitachi Data Systems) announced plans to acquire Archivas, a move which could potentially change CAS (Content Addressable Storage) game.  To date EMC with the Centera platform has run away from the archiving pack with an API and platform based CAS (Content Addressable Storage) approach that they acquired from Belgium based Filepool for $50 million in April 2001.  Long-term archiving is more mainstream than every before and the open Archivas ArC solution may be well suited for integration into the HDS TagmaStor (read more about TagmaStor) as a feature rather than an independent platform.  EMC announced a while ago tiered storage in the same frame by leveraging Fibre Channel and LC-FC (Low Cost Fibre Channel) drives in the DMX platform.  The acquisition of Archivas may provide the ability for HDS to integrate CAS into thier mainstream Thunder and Lightning storage platforms.