by Robin Harris | Sunday, January 3, 2016 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
I was under the weather for much of November and taking it slow in December. But for the new year I took a couple of short hikes of 2-3 miles. On the 31st I parked on Chapel Road and walked the Chapel Trail. The spires in this picture are the Two Nuns. The Chapel in...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 | Disk, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Probably never. Here’s why. DRAMeXchange is predicting that in 2017 some 41% of laptops will sport SSDs. As the per gigabyte price difference between disk and flash shrinks, the price differential becomes irrelevant at ever-higher capacity points. Most people...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, December 2, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Mobile, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Video |
Cheap storage is changing the world. Whether it is in the cloud, on a dash cam, or embedded in an app, cheap – as in inexpensive – storage is enabling new relationships between individuals, and with culture, power, and groups. Facebook is the most...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 16, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Zigging when others are zagging can be smart. Dell buying EMC to create a large computer company could be genius – or the last hurrah of a failing business model. Dell’s perspective is simple: ≈50% of Dell’s revenue comes from PCs, a rapidly...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 22, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage, Marketing |
I was hoping to go to this year’s Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference, as I did last year, but no joy. Not enough press passes to go around, I was told. But then I learned that AWS limited press and analyst passes to fewer than 30, much to the...
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