by Robin Harris | Monday, June 15, 2009 | Architecture, Disk, Future Tech |
DataSlide has come out of stealth mode with a very creative SSD replacement technology. They call it a Hard Rectangular Disk or HRD. Here’s their quick overview: DataSlide applies technology in new, patented ways to achieve unprecedented high performance 160,000...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | Future Tech, Marketing |
They are lifeless ideas nearly devoid of meaning – but they just won’t die. Like real – if a mythical creature can be called “real” – zombies they take a long time to kill. In a time of economic crisis, when IT organizations are...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 | Future Tech, Information Management |
The Wall Street Journal (subscription probably required) reports that e-books appear to be taking off: Barnes & Noble Inc. has launched a free electronic-reader application for Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry as general book sales flag and the e-book...
by Robin Harris | Monday, March 9, 2009 | Future Tech |
Butler Lampson, Irwin Jacobs and Vint Cerf walked into a bar . . . . Actually, they spoke at a symposium held at Google’s HQ sponsored by the American Academy for Arts and SciencesThe Public Good: The Impact of Information Technology on Society. (See the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 3, 2009 | Architecture, Future Tech |
Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated quantum holographic storage, shattering long-held assumptions about the information limits of matter. Moving into the sub-atomic realm, they permanently stored 35 bits in the quantum space surrounding a single...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, January 22, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech |
Some quick impressions from the SNIA cloud storage symposium. Not everyone believes in economies of scale At least one presenter questioned whether there are economies of scale that justify the higher latency and lower bandwidth of cloud storage. I recently wondered...
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