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)
BizTalk Server 2004 is designed to solve:
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Business Process Automation (BPA)
Information Worker Integration.
Come and join us for a technical drilldown on the new features and toolsets
available.
BizTalk Server 2004 is designed to solve: Enterprise Application Integration
(EAI) Business Process Automation (BPA) Information Worker Integration.
Come an... (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)
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's Thoughts: Where's the money?
Remarkably, as we work with clients we discover that they rarely analyze the
component costs of their operations. So let me make this easy: the bulk of
the money is in whatever you do for data protection. But even if you know
this, have you looked at the details of what you’re protecting and how
it flows through you systems? What components ... (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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