Bruce Backa

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 manag... (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 ... (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 some... (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 i... (more)

Storage always seems to come first in technical discussions and security seems to be the perennial afterthought. This can be considered reasonable given how we shop for things in general, namely finding the thing that meets our expectations and then ensure it has all the bells an... (more)

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 ex... (more)

Nowadays it's quite common for us to write server-based applications. These apps differ from desktop applications in many ways - one of the most important of which is how they handle security. For a desktop application, security is easy. The application runs in the security conte... (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: En... (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 b... (more)

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