In the world of storage area networks you must design too support the IO load first and capacity will typically never be an issue - in tier one and two storage.
With cache cards and ssd becoming cheaper this rule is changing but for many SANs they have wasted space only because they needed more spindles to support the load.
Insane, maybe - but there maybe some other factors in play here.
Maybe the company's data center is full and additional storage would require additional investment in racks, cooling, power distribution, etc.
Maybe the company is trying to encourage sane storage practices. How many storage network managers or engineers see TB of storage wasted because one department or another copies everything, twice, to the network... and never touches it again?
I would *love* to be able to charge back to the other departments that clutter up my servers with multiple copies of their files - but it gets very political very fast. So we now leverage tiered storage and put those file stores on slow SATA disks with weekly only backups. If the file becomes a popular file - it'll eventually get cached in the controller and be available very quickly to many users.
I actually like this idea. It's an alternative for small application developers to make money on their hard work.
Same goes for the iPhone iADs - it's not going to pop up ads in mail or calendar - it simply provides an API for developers to write in ad serving space on their free applications. This is an alternative to actually charging people money for the software.
Way to incite a flamewar and bring out the fan boys...
I was waiting for this news... Motorola congrats you just lost another sale. Who's to blame for this? It sounds like shit Verizon would pull but I wouldn't put it past Motorola to do this too. The same company that sold me a razor phone with mini USB port that only worked with their chargers.
I'm So sick of being treated like a theif or criminal by my consumer electronics.
Pardon my ignorance and possible first post - but couldn't NASA just recycle some retiring nuke warheads for plutonium?
I'm a happy NetApp customer and do not agree with you. ZFS has been on the opensource market long enough and documented well enough to be far out of the realm of patent-tolling.
I had an interesting candid discussion with a NetApp engineer and he also thought their legal stance on this was "dickish" and causing a lot of bad feelings overall. He's in the mindset that if they're selling a box with opensource software - fucking great! We'll sell you the support and give back to the code base with features, bug fixes, and the like. But it was nice to hear a fellow grunt in the trench speak a bit of sanity from what seems to be an insane lawsuit.
Too right. Take those deduplicated blocks of your 8000 images, then place them on SATA storage... dirt cheap vast sata disks. When you go to pull those images - even a few hundred or thousand at a time - your SATA disks will populate the cache cards in your filer with most of the duplicate blocks - and your disks will never be your bottleneck when you're pulling them back down.
NAS tech has gotten real interesting with the introduction of good and large cache, deduplication, and giant cheap SATA disks.
We use Sophos web proxies that can decrypt ssl traffic using their own ssl cert we install in the browsers on our school's pc's. It automatically skips any banking sites, and doesn't cache data it only scans for threats over ssl which are becoming more common.
Cisco wireless ip phone + plantronics stereo headset with tube mic. Good wifi coverage in the datacenter saves you from AT&T dropped calls.
If you are old enough to attend college/university you are old enough to do whatever you want.
Wrong on so many levels.
If you attend a college or university, chances are you are held to a standard of behaviour that prevents you from making the learning institution look like a fool.
Admissions papers are full of "Sign here on the X", one of them was your agreement to not be a jackass and accept the college's rulings on your behavior.
Don't like it? There's the door.
If Gizmodo pissed in my Cherios - I wouldn't invite them to my party either.
It's all based on your AP's mac address. You can change your ssid and you ip will change (DHCP) but the one thing that will remain is the MAC address of your wifi access point.
As the googmobile drives through your hood it knows where it is by GPS. It's listening for wifi data to capture the mac and tag it with the gps. Then as it picks up more data, it's able to provide a more accurate location based on wifi traffic.
Quite ingeneious, labor intensive, and completely legal.
As people upgrade their gear or move - this data will get stale. I wonder if google plans on maintaining this?
It's a good price for CPUs compared to the H5550 Xeons we just ponyied up a grand a piece for. Rockstar performance comes at rockstar prices.
These are a steal.
Your wifi is sending everything you do 300' (more or less) in all directions. Encrypt it or STFU.
and if it bothers you that one of Google's cars drove by and snagged your wifi access point's name then stop broadcasting your SSID too.
Just because you don't understand how to configure your wireless network correctly gives you know rights to sue someone. Or at least win in court.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
