Inside Apple

So, at work lots of people have been reading this book that came out called Inside Apple. Normally I would skip books that I tend to see become prolific around the company but I thought from the title that it would be useful from my Org. Behavior 7000 level class. Inside Apple from the cover purports that it is "How America's Most Admired and Secretive -- Company Really works". Now, I've read this thing from cover-to-cover and it really just talks about "Jobs" and what he's done for the company. Now, it was VERY interesting from an organizational behavior perspective and I will indeed quote it for my final paper in the class; but I felt shorted. Most of it has been written before and felt like a rehashing of existing material. But there were parts that have been insightful. I was not aware that most folks in the executive level lacked understanding of general business matters. It almost makes me want to cry for the money I'm shelling out for my MBA. All in all a very good read; would I highly encourage it to folks: No. Would I say its good for a plane ride? yes.

So My in-house SAN was at it's limits; but considering I had built it before I had arrived at Ping it had served its purpose. It was time to go! I had a few reasons 1. I am considering going without a home PC. 2. It wouldn't work right with my MacBook. 3. I had no access to my files from my iPad / Android Phone I started reviewing the solutions out there as well as considering my online options. I ended up ruling out online options as I wanted to be able to stream / view from boxee box(s) as well. I was stuck with going back to a local SAN. I have long been a reader of TheRegister and ran across a article from the hardware side called 10 local storage solutions. I loved the reviewof the WD Live box. I personally don't care about the throughput as long as it is quick enough for my purposes. The single terabyte size isn't good enough and I was happy to see Fry's carried a 2 TB version. There are lots of plus's to this device. 1. It manages its own share's and its DLNA certified so I can attached from any device! 2. Its super tiny, and is a fraction of the size of my previous solution. 3. With the myCloud solution, I can access my files from anywhere. 4. Very economical for the size and purpose. Now i need to find a off-site backup solution...