Storage ← A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way

Ignition news roundup — Symplified, Whiptail

Jan

2012

First off, we are surving the 2012 Snowpocalypse. Office traffic is light but folks are here. On the business front, it was “announced that we led a round”:http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/18/ignition-leads-20m-round-in-cloud-security-and-identity-company-symplified/ in “Symplified”:http://www.symplified.com/. Great company building some pretty essential tools to manage employee identity and engagement across the web, can’t imagine how companies manage their voice and presence ...

Photostream is cute, but what I really want is Aperture/iPhoto in the cloud

Oct

2011

So “I don’t really get iCloud storage yet”:http://theludwigs.com/2011/10/im-struggling-to-understand-why-i-would-ever-use-icloud-storage/, and “Photostream doesn’t really accomodate all my DSLR pictures well”:http://theludwigs.com/2011/10/icloud-photostream-and-dslrs-dont-seem-to-be-a-great-fit/. So rather than just whine about what I don’t have, what do I really want? First — I have a 203G (gigabyte) Aperture library today, that is where my primary photo storage is. Digging into this a ...

I’m struggling to understand why I would ever use iCloud storage.

Oct

2011

I’m struggling to understand why I would ever use iCloud storage. After a couple days of tinkering, I have two sets of data in iCloud — device backups, and Pages/Keynote docs. * I really don’t get the value of device backups. My apps are all recoverable from the iTunes store. I use primarily apps like ...

SanDisk to mass produce 64GB memory cards

Feb

2009

SanDisk to mass produce 64GB memory cards. I currently use a 64G USB for partial backup of my photo collection, it works great. I need a 128G (and soon 256G) tho to backup up everything. These things are going to eat away the USB hard disk market.

StorageMojo » Our changing file workloads

Sep

2008

StorageMojo » Our changing file workloads Interesting study results. Some of the things that fascinate me: * Files rarely re-opened. Over 66% are re-opened once and 95% fewer than 5 times. Over 60% of file re-opens are within a minute of the first open. * over 90% of the active storage was untouched during the ...