At today’s VMworld keynote the subject was end user computing. The start was all the work being done with VMware view to enable virtual desktops to execute anywhere it needs to be. VMware has some special graphical functionality to enable … Continue reading →
Who said you need to upgrade your motherboard to get USB? Just buy this $100 adapter and magically upgrade your parallel port to USB. I wonder if it has drivers for the Windows 95 you have on the computer though. I guess another option would be to just purchase a used computer that has [...]
[Edited for readability. RLL] The drummer band was great at the start but we couldn’t tell if it was real or lipsynched. It turned out that each of the Big VMWORLD letters had a digital drum pad on them which … Continue reading →
The Japanese company Greenhouse plans to launch a unique design USB flash GH-UFD4GYUBI in mid-September. The flash memory appearance is designed with a human thumb, direct selling price is 1980 yen, which is a custom price.
From the appearance of the product point of view, this U disk looks like human thumb basically with no difference.The [...]
Following earlier cloud conversations posts, cloud computing means many things from products to services, functionality and positioned for different layers of service delivery or capabilities (e.g. SaaS, AaaS, PaaS, IaaS and XaaS).In case you missed it, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has enhanced their cloud services (Elastic Cloud Compute or EC2) along with storage offerings. These include Relational Database Service (RDS), DynamoDB, Elastic Block Store (EBS), and Simple Storage Service (S3). Enhancements include new functionality along with availability or reliability in the wake of recent events (outages or service disruptions).
In honor of today’s Flash Summit conference, I give my semi-annual amateur view of competing NAND technologies. I was talking with a major storage vendor today and they said they were sampling sub-20nm NAND chips with P/E cycles of 300 … Continue reading →
IBM recently took a flash step announcing it wants and needs more SSD capabilities in different packaging and functionality capabilities to meet the demands and opportunities of customers, business partners and prospects by acquiring Texas Memory Systems (TMS).
The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has announced and published more documents for data center customers of cloud usage. These new cloud usage models for to address customer demands for interoperability of various clouds and services before for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) among other topics which are now joined by the new Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and foundational document for cloud interoperability.
With all this talk of software defined networking and server virtualization where does storage virtualization stand. I blogged about some problems with storage virtualization a week or so ago in my post on Storage Utilization is broke and this post takes … Continue reading →
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With the popularity of computer, more and more USB gadgets are used in our daily life. Today, I am to present you some interesting USB designs for you. Some of them, they have really hillarious function, like “USB Dance Mat”, and some of them are somehow useful, like the “USB Panic Button”. Anyway, take your [...]
At this week’s Hot Chips Conference Brian Curran, IBM Distinguished Engineer discussed their recently announced, new faster processing chip for System z mainframe environments that runs at 5.2Ghz. (FYI, the first 31 minutes of the YouTube video link above are from Brian’s … Continue reading →