Showing posts with label storage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label storage. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Scientific American, 18.02.2007: A Digital Life

Scientific American: A Digital Life
by Gordon Bell: "New systems may allow people to record everything they see and hear--and even things they cannot sense--and to store all these data in a personal digital archive. Our research project, called MyLifeBits, has provided some of the tools needed to compile a lifelong digital archive."

Monday, February 19, 2007

Engadget, 18.03.2007: Massive Google hard drive survey turns up very interesting things

Engadget, 18.03.2007: Massive Google hard drive survey turns up very interesting things
by Ryan Block: "When your server farm is in the hundreds of thousands and you're using cheap, off-the-shelf hard drives as your primary means of storage, you've probably good a pretty damned good data set for looking at the health and failure patterns of hard drives."

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Techcrunch, 01.12.2006: New Amazon Web Service Coming: “SDS”

Techcrunch, 01.12.2006: New Amazon Web Service Coming: “SDS”
by Michael Arrington: "A new and unannouced Amazon Web Service to be called “SDS” is referenced on this Amazon web page discussing customer YouOS (see second to last paragraph - screen shot is also below) and is being tested with a select few Amazon partners."