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10 best practices to implement cloud storage
By Tarry Singh at 5 August, 2009, 10:41 am
You can find the little walk through here
Texas Memory Systems unveils the baddest monster with 100Tb,60GB/s and 5 million sustained IOPS
By Tarry Singh at 5 August, 2009, 10:36 am
El Reg found the monster they’ve been looking for but I’m sure there’s someone else looking to kick some asses yet again.
These are huge numbers, achieved by a scale-out approach of clustering twenty RamSan-620 flash SSDs into a single entity, taking up an entire 40U rack. It might help to think of it as a [...]
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Oracle VM Book: Authors copies arrived home today
By Tarry Singh at 21 July, 2009, 7:49 am
Well, it is nice to receive you own book as well. More about the book here
Read More >>Twitter gets $48 Mn/month publicity; could leave Google far behind
By Tarry Singh at 20 July, 2009, 10:55 am
“This is huge. It’s very, very high,” Gary Getto of VMS told Advertising Age. “In fact, we looked at online coverage of Twitter vs. Google. Twitter is running significantly higher than Google and I didn’t think anything was more popular than Google.”
What outlet gave the most value to Twitter, according to the report? Fox News [...]
Los Angeles to dump traditional IT and embrace Google’s Cloudwarez
By Tarry Singh at 20 July, 2009, 10:51 am
Frustrated by a slow and antiquated computer system, the city of Los Angeles is weighing a plan to replace its e-mail and records retention software with a service provided by Google, a move that could allow the Internet giant to retain sensitive records transmitted by the police and other municipal agencies.
If approved by the City [...]
IdeationCloud Pro Beta launch, Oracle VM Book launch, Upcoming books and much more
By Tarry Singh at 20 July, 2009, 6:51 am
All,
A few thoughts I’d like to share with you.
IdeationCloud Pro Cloud Service: I intend to launch the Beta by Nov 09 and want to go live by Jan 2010. Goal is simple: Involve you, you take most of the cash/earning and I get to take the hosting but also honor of empowering you.
What will it [...]
Online Privacy? There is no privacy, get over with it!: Amazon peddles with Kindles with remote delete on all devices
By Tarry Singh at 19 July, 2009, 5:46 am
Scott McNealy said long ago during Sun’s glory days back in 99: “Get over it!”. In an online world, this is true and most of us (subconsciously) know it. We all know and (somehow) fear God or anything that exists up there depending on your beliefs, but with online everything is being stored in large [...]
Read More >>CSC renews $115 Mn contract with Henry Ford Health
By Tarry Singh at 17 July, 2009, 7:15 am
CSC has signed an information technology outsourcing services renewal contract with Henry Ford Health System. The new five-year, three-month agreement has an estimated contract value of $115m.
Under the extension that runs through 2014, the company will continue to provide all applications development and support services, including more than 200 applications covering clinical, departmental, revenue cycle [...]
Cloud Computing as the emissions reduction strategy
By Tarry Singh at 17 July, 2009, 2:07 am
Well that is what our talk on Smart Metering in the Clouds is all about. We will be writing our book on that and will help start-ups; established businesses wanting to build their own clouds or wanting to build clouds on an external cloud focus; helping IT professionals learn to use different toolkits to quickly [...]
Read More >>Microsoft’s plan to rout out VMware
By Tarry Singh at 17 July, 2009, 1:57 am
Storage Mojo takes a quick look at the WPC talk of Kevin Turner, MSFT’s COO and here’s the transcript snippet which might interest the readers:
Now let’s talk about virtualization. And the Microsoft partners in the room that have adopted our Hyper-V and our virtualization story, this is for you. For the partners in the room [...]
Cisco lays off up to 700 positions
By Tarry Singh at 17 July, 2009, 1:35 am
The company released a statement acknowledging the cuts, saying “this limited restructuring is part of our ongoing, targeted realignment of resources and was previously discussed on our fiscal second- and third-quarter 2009 earnings calls.”
Cisco had said in February that it planned to cut 1,000 to 2,000 positions worldwide, in what it described as a limited [...]
Chris Anderson’s new book: Online should be free; Thanks for the tip, Chris I’ll wait till your book is on the warez circuit
By Tarry Singh at 16 July, 2009, 9:52 am
Well I do get Anderson’s point though, while I was the foolish one back in the early 2000/late 90s to buy every piece of software, I was laughed at by my IT colleagues who had just about everything running for free. e-books, Exam books, Movies, Songs etc. I also agree that folks should get smarter [...]
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