Bruce Backa is the founder of CriticalSites. A noted business leader and consultant in the IT Industry, he has acted as chief architect, technologist, and project manager for assignments involving large scale Technology and Implementation Strategies. He has held the positions of Director of Technology and Business Research for the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) and Director of Technology for American International Group. Mr. Backa has been responsible for the architecture, implementation and management of a worldwide Client/Server networking infrastructure for a Fortune 10 company, with a platform of over 600 Servers connecting 10,000 users across 50 cities throughout North America and off shore. In 1994, he founded NTP Software, a provider of business solutions for Windows NT and Windows 2000. At the recent World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Mr. Backa was recognized as a technology pioneer. This follows a similar award from the National Computer Conference in 1974 where he was honored as a part of the Dartmouth College team that invented computer timesharing.
We (Patrick and Bruce) are new to ISSJ. In a future article, you'll learn
more about who we are and why we are here. In this issue, we thought we would
take a minute to frame some of the discussions that will go on throughout the
year.
As you probably all know from first-hand experience, storage is the fastest
growing and probably the most expensive resource on your network. With recent
legislation concerning privacy, security, and financial reporting - hundreds
of laws in all - storage must now be one of the most carefully managed
resources on your network. You have two important reasons why you must do a
good job: financial and legal.
While disk drives may be cheap, the cost of installing new storage and
maintaining what you've got is not. In fact, industry analysts s... (more)
Bruce Backa's Storage Blog: The New Economics
We have all watched the price of on-line storage decrease year after year.
While it is still neither infinite nor free (and it's certainly not free to
manage), it is pretty inexpensive these days. So inexpensive, in fact, that
tape is now dramatically more expensive.
This cost inversion (tape used to be much cheaper than on-line storage)
shoul... (more)
Storage is still one of the most costly and fastest-growing aspects of
everyone's network and is likely to remain so for some time. Every network
user is a storage user. We're all part of a community that shares the costs
and the benefits of this expensive resource. Storage management can be a
challenging task. There's so much hardware, so many alternatives, and so many
issues that it's ... (more)
Last month (.NETDJ, Vol. 1, issue 12) we demonstrated a simple technique that
allows you to avoid storing passwords in clear text, making your .NET
applications more secure and safer should they somehow be compromised. In
this article, we want to step back a bit and look at the big picture:
application security from end to end.
When it comes to security, we developers are in charge. Secur... (more)
Okay, summer's over. Let's get back to work...
But first, let's look at what's new. Microsoft has taken WinFS, its new file
system, out of the first release of its next operating system. The story is
that WinFS will follow soon after the OS releases. For most of us, this is
something we don't need to worry about for a couple of years, at least.
EMC has reduced prices on its Celera line of ... (more)
Bruce Backa is the founder of CriticalSites. A noted business leader and consultant in the IT Industry, he has acted as chief architect, technologist, and project manager for assignments involving large scale Technology and Implementation Strategies. He has held the positions of Director of Technology and Business Research for the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) and Director of Technology for American International Group. Mr. Backa has been responsible for the architecture, implementation and management of a worldwide Client/Server networking infrastructure for a Fortune 10 company, with a platform of over 600 Servers connecting 10,000 users across 50 cities throughout North America and off shore. In 1994, he founded NTP Software, a provider of business solutions for Windows NT and Windows 2000. At the recent World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Mr. Backa was recognized as a technology pioneer. This follows a similar award from the National Computer Conference in 1974 where he was honored as a part of the Dartmouth College team that invented computer timesharing.
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