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Submission + - eBay Deploys 100TB of SSD, Cuts Rackspace By Half

Submitted by

Lucas123

on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @02:28PM

Lucas123 writes: "eBay's QA division was facing mounting performance issues as related to its exponential growth of virtual servers, so instead of purchasing more 15K rpm Fibre Channel drives, the company began migrating over to a pure SSD environment. eBay said half of its 4,000 VMs are now attached to SSD. The changeout had improved the time it takes the online site to deploy a VM from 45 minutes to 5 minutes and had a tremendous impact on its rack space requirements. "One rack [of SSD storage] is equal to eight or nine racks of something else," said Michael Craft, eBay's manager of QA Systems Administration."

Comment Re:Google Code Search (Score 1) 165

by Bamfarooni on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @07:05PM (#36829616) Attached to: Google To Discontinue Google Labs

Whoops. Maybe I'm wrong. Says right there on the logo that its in labs. Huh.

Comment Re:Google Code Search (Score 0) 165

by Bamfarooni on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @07:02PM (#36829590) Attached to: Google To Discontinue Google Labs

Code search isn't part of labs. If it doesn't have a googlelabs.com address, it's probably not affected by this.

Comment Re:Yeah right (Score 1) 413

by Bamfarooni on Thursday March 31, 2011 @06:03PM (#35683294) Attached to: FSF Suggests That Google Free Gmail Javascript

What, you don't write all your code that way?

Comment Re:unobtainable books. (Score 1) 234

by Bamfarooni on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @12:34AM (#35582780) Attached to: Federal Judge Rejects Google Books Deal

As for the future, well, digital copies are actually a LOT harder to preserve long term. I myself have files that I can no longer open, because I no longer have a copy of the word processor "Sprint" running on MS-DOS 5.0. They're less than twenty years old, and are essentially unusable.

Well that's just short-sightedness. There are still converters for Sprint format however, and I'd be happy to convert them for you if you promise not to put them into another proprietary format.

By contrast, I once held and read a hand-written breviary from fourteenth century Italy, a good six and half centuries old and still usable. If we could find a way to archive digital information which would guarantee its usability a mere century from now, I'd rest a lot more easily.

Yeah, but I have more books on my cell-phone than currently exist from the fourteenth century.

Comment Re:Victory against Google-oply = good (Score 2, Insightful) 234

by Bamfarooni on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @08:00PM (#35581076) Attached to: Federal Judge Rejects Google Books Deal

Could you be a little more obviously prejudiced? And while you're at it, could you please identify how anyone (Google or not) goes about getting access to (or rights for) a book by a dead author that's not longer in print?

It sure would be nice if all those works weren't effectively dead (and their knowledge lost) just because my local bookstore or library can't get them.

Comment ODK + Fusion Tables (Score 2) 167

by Bamfarooni on Friday March 18, 2011 @05:44PM (#35536686) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Wireless Voting For Students?

You can set up an ODK form (http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/), kids vote with their smartphone (or computer), and all the results go into a Google Fusion Table (http://www.google.com/fusiontables).

Comment Re:"Most" doesn't mean "very". (Score 1) 465

by Bamfarooni on Thursday March 17, 2011 @01:02AM (#35512738) Attached to: Microsoft On List of Most Ethical Companies

The list of highly questionable if not outright illegal activities is very long:

You can start here with "A History of Anticompetitive Behavior and Consumer Harm"
http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepaper.pdf

and then move on to a catalog of their attacks on standards:
http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/Dirty_Tricks_history

and then any of these:
Illegal tying: http://www.ecis.eu/documents/ECISPressStatementonOperaSO1.pdf
Unethical marketing: http://www.nearsoft.com/blog/MS-test.html
Antitrust: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/600488.stm

Or these:
http://slashdot.org/story/00/05/02/158204/Kerberos-PACs-And-Microsofts-Dirty-Tricks
http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2007/02/microsoft_dirty_tric_1.html
http://techrights.org/2008/12/01/leaked-oem-vista-ad-incentives/
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/57261/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/368660.stm
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107100653
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/06/08/23/1251210/Microsoft-Admonished-by-US-District-Court-Judge
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-tried-to-muck-with-anti-linux-facts/235
http://www.zdnet.com/news/fact-and-fiction-in-the-microsoft-sco-relationship/139743
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/10/23/13219/110
http://lproven.livejournal.com/102128.html
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7654

Comment Recycled from 2000 (Score 2) 148

by Bamfarooni on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @02:12PM (#35506626) Attached to: NASA Wants To Zap Space Junk With Lasers

NASA Hopes Laser Broom Will Help Clean Up Space Debris
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/debris-00a.html

Comment Blatent Copyright Violatiion (Score 1) 298

by Bamfarooni on Sunday March 13, 2011 @05:30PM (#35474478) Attached to: Tech Expertise Not Important In Google Managers

Nice job posting to an article that is 100% (poorly formatted) copy of a NY times article, with 0% attribution.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/business/13hire.html

Comment Re:Stupid Idea (Score 2) 1026

by Bamfarooni on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @09:24PM (#35157408) Attached to: Obama Calling For $53B For High Speed Rail

An additional question: Where would it be efficient?

Answered in TFA, which the poster conveniently didn't link to: http://www.america2050.org/maps/

The entire west coast: San Diego > L.A. > San Jose > San Francisco > Portland > Seattle
The entire east coast: Boston, NY, Philidelphia, DC, Charlotte, Jacksonville, Miami

And more.

Submission + - RIAA, MPAA recruit MasterCard as Internet Police (myce.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @08:47AM

An anonymous reader writes: Two weeks ago, MasterCard felt the wrath of Anonymous Operation Payback-style DDoS attacks after refusing to process payments that were intended to fund WikiLeaks, the website which began leaking confidential US diplomatic cables last month. Now, the company is preparing to head down another controversial path by pledging to deny transactions which support websites that host pirated movies, music, games, or other copyrighted content.

MasterCard lobbyists have also been in talks with entertainment industry trade groups, including the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and have made it clear that the company will support the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA), sources close to the talks have said.

Comment How's this compare to total sales? (Score 2, Interesting) 238

by Bamfarooni on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @04:37PM (#32174434) Attached to: Indie Pay-What-You-Want Bundle Reaches $1 Million

I wonder how this compares to the total sales all 5 (now 6) games had prior to being included in the bundle?

Oh, and awesome job, guys. Goo is a great game. Haven't had time to get to the rest yet.

Comment Re:Is this a joke? (Score 4, Informative) 403

by Bamfarooni on Monday May 10, 2010 @06:36PM (#32163088) Attached to: Bill Gates Funds Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines

Fortunately, they're not suggesting that increased evaporation is the important part. It's an increase in cloud cover.

Iran Suspends Google's Email Service 436

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @05:36PM from the single-payer-system dept.

appl_iran writes "Iran's telecommunications agency announced that it would be suspending Google's email services permanently, saying it would roll out its own national email service." From the short WSJ article that is kernel of this Reuters story: "An Iranian official said the measure was meant to boost local development of Internet technology and to build trust between people and the government." Funny way to go about that. Updated 20100211 9:54GMT by timothy: Original link swapped for a more appropriate, updated one.

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