Instead of backing up data to an external hard drive, a chore as popular in our home as taking out the trash, we staked out disk space on each machine and opened it to the other computers on the home front.

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In the case quoted above, the CIO believed that his IT department had been on a storage buying binge and it was high time to in fact use more of the raw disk capacity on the machine room floor that was already powered-up and spinning.

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"Sneakernet" is an old jargon term used to describe the act of having to carry a computer file on a floppy disk or other media from a machine in one room to another.

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What we really have now is primarily a memory-based machine with a lot of disk to expand the capacity of it.

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