Facebook moves a Data Center Elephant, Dozens of Petabytes migrate to Prineville
Updated: 2011-07-30 16:52:43
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When last we discussed holographic storage it was over the decline of the industry as a whole and what could be done about it. Perhaps I posted too soon. GE research just announced that they have come out with a new media formulation offering the possibility of 500GB per single disk platter and broadens the [...]
Commercial USB LED desk lights can be fully-functional lighting devices for viewing your documents and lighting your workspace. Most do-it-yourself desk lights, on the other hand, are simple, hastily-constructed conversation pieces built on-the-fly. Building a USB desk light out of junk from around the office can be a relaxing break time diversion. Including a resistor [...]
Summer 2011 Server and StorageIO news letter
Read a recent news item on Intel being able to replicate their 320 SSD 8MB problem that some customers have been complaining about. Apparently the problem occurs when power is suddenly removed from the device. The end result is that the SSD’s capacity is restricted to 8MB from 40GB or more. I have seen these [...]
When last we discussed this topic, the tides had turned and the then current SPECsfs 2008 results had shown that any advantage that CIFS had over NFS was an illusion. Well there has been more activity for both CIFS and NFS protocols since our last discussion and it showed, once again that CIFS was faster than [...]
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Portable USB power
This project details a small & simple, but very powerful USB charger for your mp3 player, camera, cell phone, and just about any other gadget you can plug into a USB port to charge!
The charger circuitry and 2 AA batteries fit into an Altoids gum tin, and will run your iPhone for hours! [...]
Unpacking the set the first thing you’ll probably notice is how incredibly long the cable is. In total it measures three metres, and is long enough that you’re more likely to have problems with it being too long than too short. Thankfully, there’s a cable management system provided that allows you to wrap any superfluous [...]
An announcement this week by VMware on their vSphere 5 Virtual Storage Appliance has brought back the concept of shared DAS (see vSphere 5 storage announcements). Over the years, there have been a few products, such as Seanodes and Condor Storage (may not exist now) that have tried to make a market out of sharing DAS [...]
USBphone looks like a traditional telephone, but it has a USB connector instead of an RJ-11. It may be used with most softphones and services like Skype, Sipnet, Sippoint Mini, Net2Phone, MSN Messenger, NetMeeting, Xlite.
Last December, as we were settling down for a long winter’s nap, we were visited by two robots from the future! They spoke to us and now it is time to share their message. There’s good news and bad news. The good news is there are tons of really cool robots in the future. The [...]
Twitter was all abuzz yesterday about the recent VMware vSphere 5 announcement. Although there were quite a few changes that came out, the ones of most interest to me were all in the data storage arena: DAS storage appliance - VMware vSphere 5 now has a virtual machine that can take server DAS and offer [...]
Cubicle warfare just got an upgrade
The arms race is on. The workplace has become a dangerous place, but once upon a time, it was all a laugh. Back in the day, your workmates chased each other with squirt-guns, then disc-guns. Everybody laughed when somebody brought in the harmless Airzooka. Gleefully, somebody brought in a marshmallow [...]
Do you use a Pen-Drive for transferring data across different systems in your office/network, then there is a high possibility of virus infections for transferring across with the pen-drive as a medium.Here are collection of freeware tools that you could as your first line of defense before using your pen drive on other systems.
1.USB Write [...]
SMB, SOHO and low end NAS gaining enterprise features providing more options and purchasing choices
So what does this all mean? Simple, if you are not already using unified storage in some shape or form, either at work or perhaps even at home, most likely it will be in your future. Thus the question of not if, rather when, where, with what and how.
Is the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) a challenger to VMware or too little to late?
Buying flash memory cards wholesale from an internet site can be tricky and dangerous. Fraud is lurking for sellers who want a quick profit buying cheap and selling high for flash memory cards. Recently a seller in the China, Shenzhen Wushengda Technology Co Ltd was spotted by a buyer frauded on eBay. The victim began [...]
There was some twitter traffic yesterday on how Facebook was locked into using MySQL (see article here) and as such, was having to shard their MySQL database across 1000s of database partitions and memcached servers in order to keep up with the processing load. The article indicated that this was painful, costly and time consuming. Also [...]
I would like to take a moment to wish a happy 100th birthday (or anniversary) to entities (or items) that Im involved with in one form or another. Both are technology and infrastructure related, both facilitate commerce and transportation and in active service. One is a company known to many as IBM or International Business [...]
Industry adoption and deployment may be one and the same depending on your viewpoint. However they can also mean different things depending on what you do or your area of interest. For example, when I hear the term industry adoption that means that the industry (press, media, bloggers, analysts, consultants, evangelists, vendors, vars, investors) are [...]
I will keep this simple and short. For those of you in the US, happy fourth of July. For those of you elsewhere, enjoy the nice weather while it lasts. And to those who like fishing and catching, good luck. After all, for those who at least give it or something a try, your chances [...]