If you have been reading my blog for a while, you know that the only thing I enjoy more than Data Protection and storage technologies is gaming — and specifically family gaming is an area that I think is less covered than it should be. Well, the kind folks over at XBOX.com, specifically Trixie and…
Year: 2008
Webcast — what is coming next for DPM 2007 ?
Its been about 6 months since DPM 2007 became generally available in the market, so we starting to hear the question “What’s next for Data Protection Manager 2007?” Please join us on Wednesday, April 23rd for a TechNet webcast to answer that question, as we talk about new workloads being protected, new capabilities within the…
Why is Windows Server 2008 called SP1 ?
If you go to the ‘about’ for Windows Server 2008, you’ll see the box to the right, showing Windows Server 2008 as ‘Version 6.0 Service Pack 1″. I’ll admit to never having noticed this before … But, Iain McDonald (in Windows Server engineering) did an amazing blog on the history of the client OS’s and…
Please vote for DPM 2007 as product of the year
We were recently informed that DPM 2007 has been named a finalist for ‘Product of the Year’ for eWeek Channel Insider … in the Storage Management category. There are some other cool finalists, but DPM is the only backup player in consideration this year. We think that DPM really changes the way that folks do…
Family Game Recommendation — Cooking Mama
For those of you who follow my gaming recommendations, you’ve heard lots about my two sons, ages 7 and 9 — and the games that we play together. But there are two other gamers in my family, whose ages are 3 and 29-and-holding — and their favorite pastime right now is Cooking Mama –…
The best kids’ game that I know of — LEGO Star Wars
These have been out for a while, so this recommendation is a little late — but as I have been telling folks about it for a while, I wanted to get this in print. The first release, LEGO Star Wars, was actually for the last generation of gaming consoles — and covered the first…
Video interview — where does DPM 2007 see itself in the backup market
This interview is actually a few months old – recorded at IT Forum in November 2007, but I recently found it online and wanted to share it with you. Its about 10 minutes long and talks about what are core features and unique deliverables with DPM 2007. Hope you enjoy it. Click here to watch…
Co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons has died — Gary Gygax 1938-2008
source : http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9885383-7.html?tag=nefd.only Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, died on Tuesday at the age of 69, due to heart problems. I never met Gary nor have I been to a D&D convention – and I think the last time that I rolled a 20-sided dice was in junior high school. However, some of…
Family Game Recommendation — Fantastic Four : Rise of the Silver Surfer
My sons are 7 and 9 — and we are routinely looking for 3-player games. We’ve done party games like Viva Pinata : Party Animals, as well as Fuzion Frenzy2. We have games on our Nintendo GameCube and Wii. And we currently do a lot of tag-teaming on 2-player games, where I play with…
New video – DPM LICENSING details
DPM 2007 has a really simple licensing model: DPM Server – for the back-end platform(s) Standard DPML – for file protection Enterprise DPML – for file and application platform There aren’t any Open File managers, library agents, etc. You don’t have to buy # Exchange Agents, # SharePoint agents, # SQL Server agents, etc. -…