Last Wednesday I passed a pleasant evening chatting with a number of people from HP on the subject of “Green IT”. I happen to think that “Green IT” is an oxymoron as IT is never going to deliver computing power using 100% recyclable energy and components. However, IT can certainly improve its green credentials from [...]
I heard on the wireless today that Bill Gates has a LinkedIn Profile (well hasn’t everyone). Just out of interest, I thought I’d see how far I am from the man himself and I was surprised to find I was only 3 steps away, despite Bill only having 5 connections. I was [...]
This weekend there was a “fault” on the UK London Underground Oyster card system which caused chaos for many travellers and rendered a large number of cards inoperable and requiring replacement.
This follows the recent cloning of the Oyster card by a group of “Dutch Boffins” (The Register’s term, not [...]
Seagate announced yesterday version 11 of their Barracuda hard drive range, to be released next month (August 2008) with a maximum capacity of 1.5TB. The news link has all the speeds and feeds if you’re interested in how they have achieved this remarkable milestone.
I’ve trawled the [...]
Last year I blogged about the concept of storage futures (or options – I’d have to go back and check which) which would allow storage charges to be based on a forward pricing model. The logic for this was to penalise those “customers” who don’t bother to take the time and plan [...]
The BBC has reported that prices in France for snails are set to rocket. I lived and worked in France for a few years and loved tucking into the garlic covered gastropods. But horror of horrors, apparently most snails served in France are now not French! Is nothing sacred?
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I just read this on The Register. 5TB drives! Can you imagine it! The HDD manufacturers continue to push the envelope even further.
Now I have a concern about drives getting to this size and that’s the ability to get data on/off the drive itself. With 73/146/300GB drives, the capacity to response time [...]
The UK Government is running a competition offering participants up to £20,000 if they can create new uses for existing free sources of government data by combining the data into new and useful information (a mash-up). You can find a link to the data here.
The volume of data is [...]
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