Thinking about Big Data, here are 8 rules
Updated: 2012-02-29 15:37:00
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Read an article today about startups and others in Kenya providing electronic medical care via mHealth and improving the country’s health care system (see Kenya’s Startup Boom). It seems that four interns were able to create a smartphone and web … Continue reading →
Read an interesting article from MIT’s Technical Review about a study presented at last weeks Usenix FAST (File and Storage Technology) conference on How Data Storage Cripples Mobile Apps. It seems storage performance can seriously slow down smartphone functioning, not … Continue reading →
This POV Hard Drive Clock with Etched Copper Numbers is a work of art. The custom board on the back keeps track of time, spins the motor and uses LEDs to light the correct number when it is in the proper location. The numbers have been etched out of a copper PCB to [...]
Solid State Devices (SSD) marketers job is to put things in the best light. Researchers jobs are to find the good, the bad and the ugly, so what should you do? Should it be a surprise that marketers wont agree with researchers or researchers not agreeing with each other?
Cubify has launched a really cool 3D objects printer that can print objects. Those of you who are interested in decorating their houses, this is a must have gadget that you should get to enhance your creativity skills. Just check out these objects printed by The Cube. If you want to cubify your [...]
This chart comes from our analysis of Microsoft Exchange Reviewed Solutions Program (ESRP) v3 (Exchange 2010) performance results for the over 5000 mailbox category, a report sent out to SCI Storage Intelligence Newsletter subscribers last month. The total database backup throughput … Continue reading →
Read an article today on AAAS Science Now online magazine (See Hot Idea for a Faster Hard Drive) on using lasers alone to toggle magnetic moments in specially designed ferro-magnetic materials. The disk industry has been experimenting with bit patterned … Continue reading →
Although technically Project Lightening and Thunder represent some interesting offshoots of EMC software, hardware and system prowess, I wonder why they would decide to go after this particular market space. There are plenty of alternative offerings in the PCIe NAND … Continue reading →
EMC formerly announced VFCache (aka Project Lightning) an IO accelerator product that comprises a PCIe nand flash card (aka Solid State Device or SSD) and intelligent cache management software. The approach EMC is taking with vFCache should not be a surprise given their history of starting out with memory and SSD evolving it into an intelligent cache optimized storage solution.
eBay China determined to fraud buyers with fake and counterfeit flash memory products, despite negative press from the FrankenFlash project and SOSFakeFlash. eBay powerless to stop eBay sellers in China from listing fake capacity flash memory for usb flash drives, memory cards and mp players? So many internet warnings to stay away from eBay China, [...]
[We are still catching up on our charts for the past quarter but this one brings us up to date through last month] There’s just something about a million SPECsfs2008(r) NFS throughput operations per second that kind of excites me (weird, … Continue reading →