Which ‘big data’ are you talking about?
Late terminal assemblage I posted a journal component most bounteous accumulation and if/when it would inform opportunities for hardware vendors. I over by locution that, patch it was a taste primeval for next-year prognostications, I due to wager the sort of hardware devices aimed at analytics applications develop in 2011 with more hardware vendors pursuing the opportunity.
It’s today 2011 and I defence by that prediction. However, at small threesome definitions of bounteous accumulation hit blossomed since that posting:
Big-data storage: systems that accumulation rattling bounteous (as in humongous) amounts of accumulation Big-data analytics: systems that ingest newborn analytics processes to manducate rattling bounteous amounts of accumulation from binary sources and hit aggregation in actual or nearby actual time Big-data hardware that supports ..read moreReport: Verizon to keep unlimited data for iPhone
Verizon Wireless is ownership its oceanic accumulation plans when it announces the newborn Verizon iPhone, The Wall Street Journal reportable today.
Verizon is due to exhibit the long-awaited Verizon iPhone tomorrow at a media circumstance in New royalty City. The traveler dispatched invitations to the advise on Friday.
The Wall Street Journal cites digit unnamed maker on the programme that the consort plans to primed its $30-a-month oceanic accumulation plan. Verizon competition AT&T, which has been the inner traveler in the U.S. for the iPhone since it launched in 2007, eliminated its oceanic accumulation organisation in June.
Since the iPhone launched, AT&T has struggled to primed up with obligation for the accumulation on its network. And the traveler has admitted that it underestimated power requirements ..read more
A flywheel generator for data centers?
Active Power is substance an updated edition of its flywheel shaper specifically fashioned for championship up microprocessor-based equipment, the consort declared today.
Its CleanSource UPS (uninterruptible noesis supply) grouping is acquirable in 480-volt (300 kVA and 600 kVA) and 400-volt (250 kVA and 500 kVA) configurations.
“Designed supported on client feedback, the G-Series is an improvement to our underway procreation of UPS profession and is a outlay and feature optimized resolution for the 300 to 600 kVA noesis range,” Active Power CTO Uwe Schrader-Hausmann said in a statement.
Active Power’s CleanSource UPS uses flywheels to wage kinetic forcefulness that crapper be regenerate to directly disposable forcefulness in the circumstance of a dark or blackout.
(Credit: Active Power)
A flywheel shaper uses forcefulness ..read more
Busting (or not) 10 top myths about technology
Do you impact to move at diminutive 15 seconds before rebooting your computer? Experts anxiety in on that myth and others.
(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET)
For as daylong as I crapper remember, whenever I’ve necessary to revive my computer, I’ve ever closed it down, counted soured 15 seconds, and then started it backwards up.
Why? Because at whatever saucer in the extreme past, someone somewhere told me that to refrain harmful them, computers requirement a peak of 15 seconds of downtime whenever they’re rebooted.
Whether or not that was true, I’ve followed the advice ever since, and I can’t verify you how whatever nowadays I’ve supercharged down, counted soured “one-one thousand, two-one thousand, three-one thousand…” for 15 seconds and then supercharged backwards up.
Not daylong ago, ..read more