Storage: Whereas clustered storage can reign supreme over dangerous situations which disk drives cannot, drive reliability is still critical. “Even when it doesn’t cause data loss, a drive failure is more than a minor annoyance,” Mario Apicella points out in Taking RAID out of the box. Then again, more and more clustered systems are challenging the status quo. Example: Pivot3 and its RAIGE, as in Redundant Array of Independent Gigabit Ethernet. Best of the blogs: One might not know it from the title Red Hat Linux vs. the World, but “Red Hat is not desperate,” asserts Dave Rosenberg. At least not when it comes to intellectual property deals Microsoft is cutting with the likes of Novell, Linspire and Xandros. “For all you companies that want to work with Microsoft, I would suggest you get them to acquire you. Anything else is a dead end.”App Dev: Even if it’s not as powerful as Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation, Adobe’s AIR, as in Adobe Integrated Runtime, creates what one designer calls “a new breed of applications somewhere between traditional desktop applications and Web applications.” What’s more, another developers says in Adobe AIR fulfills hopes for cross-platform developers that it represents the next evolution of how people engage with the Internet. Video: In the Week Ahead with Gina Smith, get the scoop on the Enterprise 2.0 tradeshow. “There’s a lot of promise for Web-based applications and social networking in the enterprise.” Also, Apple news and perspective, and storage management technologies. Watch it here.