Streamload/MediaMax/The Linkup Closes.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 134 days ago (http://informednetworker.com)
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Dave Mackey talks about the closing of Streamload/MediaMax/The Linkup and its relation to a new business-oriented service called Nirvanix. read more »
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Chipmakers Want a Bailout TooOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by articleeditor 51 days ago (http://gigaom.com)
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"The Semiconductor Industry Association said today that chips sales were up 5.5 percent in August compared with the year before, but cautioned that since more than half of chips go into consumer devices, the U.S. Congress needs to act to stabilize the economic situation. SIA president George Scalise added his pleas to those of other tech industry leaders saying, consumer confidence is essential to the entire supply chain of the global technology sector." read more »
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Toshiba Expands HDD Lineup For Mini-NotebooksOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by tg01 58 days ago (http://www.informationweek.com)
Category: storage | Tags toshiba, hdd, 1.8-inch, pata, netbook, mini notebook, pmp, portable media player, hard drive, Search All Tags
The Serial ATA products also are available with Toshiba's free-fall sensor option that parks the disk head before impact when a notebook is dropped. read more »
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Learning the Components: Memory and StorageOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by eric.brown 268 days ago (http://thoughtput.typepad.com)
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For those of you who may not understand memory and storage on a computer, this is a small article with a video attached. It is aimed apparently at a computing 101 class. read more »
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Amazon S3 Crash Raises Doubts Among Cloud CustomersOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 121 days ago (http://www.byteandswitch.com)
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Questions are being raised as to the reliability of the Amazon S3 as a result of the recent eight hour service failure. This caused problems for online companies that were relying on the S3 for file storage. Amazon is researching to perfect the system and prevent any future failures. read more »
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Amazon adds persistent storage to compute cloudOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 93 days ago (http://www.infoworld.com)
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James Niccolai writes, "The feature, called Elastic Block Store, allows developers to create a storage volume of between 1G byte and 1T byte and attach it to "instances" of applications running in Amazon's cloud. Developers can then detach the storage volume and use it later for other application instances and back it up to Amazon's S3 storage service if they need more durability." read more »
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How about this fight card? Dell vs. Google vs. Microsoft vs. AppleOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 91 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
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Charles Cooper suggests that Dell should be listed to the current list of cloud based storage contenders (Google, Microsoft, and Apple). read more »
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Why Cache Matters in NAS PerformanceOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 81 days ago (http://www.smallnetbuilder.com)
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Don Capps writes, "One of the confusing aspects of NAS performance is the significant impact of caches. Today's computing systems have multiple caches, not only in the main system RAM, but in the client, the server and client CPUs, and hard drives themselves. Each cache is aimed at reducing the time it takes to access frequently-used data." read more »
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