• Cloud, virtualization, storage and networking in an election year

    Updated: 2012-09-26 20:39:33
    Be an informed decision maker balance needs vs. wants to make effective selections regardless of if for a major or minor item, technology, trend, product, process, protocol or service. Informed decisions also mean looking at both current and evolving or future trends, challenges and needs which for data infrastructures including servers, storage, networking, IO fabrics, cloud and virtualization means factoring in changing data and information lifecycles and access or usage patterns.

  • New Client SSD Firmware—Even Faster Starts and Lower Power Use

    Updated: 2012-09-26 16:47:20
    One of the advantages of owning a Micron (or Crucial) SSD is that you often benefit from the continuous improvements we roll in to win new business and meet future design requirements. That’s certainly true with our latest C400/m4 firmware release, which provides multiple speed and power upgrades. This is optional firmware, but users who [...]

  • Cloud conversations: confidence, certainty and confidentiality

    Updated: 2012-09-19 09:25:21
    Its one thing to be scared of something and not know what or why you are scared. Its another thing to know or figure out what or why you are scared or concerned and then be able to do something about it. For example learn what standards such as SNIA CDMI among others exist and how those could be of assistance along with other tools or best practices from others.

  • The changing aspects of Cables and Hubs for USB 3.0

    Updated: 2012-09-19 08:56:22
    The USB 3.0 is a high-speed transfer technology that answers to the demand for higher transfer speeds required by the greater bandwidth demand from certain devices.? Also known as SuperSpeed, it offers major improvements such as higher transfer rates (up to 4.8Gbps), increased maximum bus power, new power management features, full-duplex data transfers, support for [...]

  • PCM—Agent of Change for Future Architectures

    Updated: 2012-09-17 23:24:56
    It’s no secret in the memory industry that existing technologies are running into scaling issues. As we all know, the problem is in the physics. But so is the solution, and that’s why we’re excited that The Economist’s Technology Quarterly took notice of phase change memory (PCM)—the emerging technology that the publication posits as being [...]

  • Latest ESRP results for 1K and under mailboxes – chart of the month

    Updated: 2012-09-14 01:17:22
    The above chart was from our July newsletter Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) performance analysis for 1000 and under mailbox submissions. I have always liked response times as they seem to be mostly the result of tight engineering, coding and/or … Continue reading →

  • Exciting USB Power ChargeCard for iPhone

    Updated: 2012-09-11 09:31:19
    Tired of carrying around a USB cable just to charge your iPhone? You are no longer left with such a limited set of choices now. A new kind of iPhone charging cable called the Charge Card is being promoted in Kickstarter. The ChargeCard USB cable for iPhone fits in your wallet. The original idea of the [...]

  • Big science/big data ENCODE project decodes “Junk DNA”

    Updated: 2012-09-07 17:48:58
    Project ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA Elements) results were recently announced. The ENCODE project was done by a consortium of over 400 researchers from 32 institutions and has deciphered the functionality of so called Junk DNA in the human genome. They … Continue reading →

  • Does software eliminate or move location of vendor lock-in?

    Updated: 2012-09-06 19:42:04
    I’m always interested when I hear or read a software vendor or their value added reseller (VA) or business partner claim that their solution eliminates vendor lock in. More often than not, I end up being amazed if not amused over the claims which usually should be rephrased as eliminating hardware vendor lock in.

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