August 2009
8 posts
AnandTech: The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD.
EE Times: Higher NAND memory prices coming, analyst says.
“Sun has really focused on the laptop experience in order to woo Linux users over...”
– Ben Rockwood
Steven R. Hetzler: The Storage Chasm: Implications for the Future of HDD and Solid State Storage. Depressing, but it’s hard to argue against it.
The Register: OpSource floats VMware cloud.
The Register: Google Book Search - Is it The Last Library? “Now that Google has already settled with authors and publishers, could another operation swing the same terms?” I don’t...
VMware’s position on hypervisor footprints, patching, vulnerabilities and whatever else Microsoft wants to throw into a blog post.
Mark Wilson: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation (aka “me too!â€) Better performance than XenServer at a lower price than vSphere sounds like innovation to me; it just isn’t technical innovation. Touting the performance of passthrough devices is sleazy...
Hot Chips
Open vSwitch. This is a lot more interesting to me than VN-Tag or VEPA.
EE Times: IBM cracks open lid on Power7.
SemiAccurate: AMD outs Socket G34. Oh my, that motherboard is beautiful.
Tilera Announces the TILEmpower Platform for High-Performance Networking and Multimedia Applications.
SemiAccurate: Intel details Beckton.
iFixit: PlayStation 3 Slim Teardown. “Wait, a new slimmer...
Scott Lowe: Potential UCS Issue: Northbound FCoE Connectivity, No Such Thing as an End-to-End FCoE Solution, Why No Multi-Hop FCoE? Yikes. Not only does FCoE preserve the (complex) FC administration model; it appears to add even more problems.
Brad Hedlund: Cisco UCS and Nexus 1000V design diagram with Palo adapter. I don’t understand the point of using two (expensive) levels of...
“When they speak of challenges, your corporate overlords are telling you there...”
– eln
orphaned comments of the [dead]
Bob Wyman: Of Liquidity, Competition and Platforms.
TipJoy shuts down. “We strongly believe that social payments will work on a social network, provided that they’re done within the platform and not as a 3rd party.” (In accordance with prophecy.)
The Register: Chip makers to flex their bits at Hot Chips. The unbalanced Power7 is used in the Apple tablet.
OS X is running on...