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Rocks don't need to be backed up
An excerpt from a thought provoking article by Henry Newman, an industry consultant with 28 years experience in high-performance computing and storage. My wife and I were in New York’s Central Park last fall when we saw a nearly 4,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk that has been remarkably well preserved, with hieroglyphs that were clearly legible —... »
