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Microsoft’s Big Chance to Change 23 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
Big changes are coming to Microsoft. The company that dominated computing in the 1990′s and hung on through the 2000′s is on the precipice today. Will they fly or fall? Steve Ballmer oversaw a decade...
Cable Matters USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter: Hands-On Review 14 Aug 2013 | 07:13 pm
Dreaming of a single-cable docking station for my MacBook Pro, but not wanting to beta test the Belkin Thunderbolt dock, I decided to build my own using USB 3.0. This meant buying a sizable powered US...
Flash Memory in the DRAM Slots? Diablo Technologies is Working On It… 30 Jul 2013 | 09:44 pm
I’ve written recently about the difference between solid-state drives (SSDs), PCIe SSDs, and solid-state memory over PCIe. But a new technology was presented to me this month that’s even more radical:...
Thinking About Storage In a New Way, From Cloud to Flash, with Dropbox and Fusion-io 23 Jul 2013 | 05:30 pm
I’ve been a storage revolutionary for quite a while, looking for new ways of data storage rather than technologies that perpetuate the same old approaches. That’s why I’m excited about the implication...
Apple Brings PCIe SSD To The Masses In The New MacBook Air 12 Jun 2013 | 11:13 pm
Apple's brand-new MacBook Air might not look much from the outside, but a revolution lurks under the hood: This is the first mainstream computer to eschew SATA in favor of PCIe SSD! Long heralded in w...
Why Are PCIe SSDs So Fast? 12 Jun 2013 | 08:34 pm
The world of storage can be confusing, with obscure terms hiding massive differences in technology and performance. Such is the case for the latest PCI express SSDs: They are much faster than traditio...
Canon Vixia HF M50: Hands-On Review 6 Jun 2013 | 05:48 am
Although I love my Sony NEX-7, it's not ideal for the sort of videos I've been recording for Foskett Services. So I recently picked up a pair of decent HD camcorders to add to my road video kit. The C...
Scaling Storage Is Hard To Do 5 Jun 2013 | 04:23 am
Data storage isn't as easy as it sounds, especially at enterprise or cloud scale. It's simple enough to read and write a bit of data, but much harder to build a system that scales to store petabytes. ...
Live DR Replicas On-Demand 3 Jun 2013 | 07:32 pm
Ideas in IT come in waves, and recently I've been hearing about a great capability: On-demand live replicas of production virtual machines. Want to test your DR environment? Spin up a live sandbox in ...
Repurposing an Older iMac As a Monitor and Server 31 May 2013 | 09:15 pm
Long-time readers of my blog may remember my adventures with my 2009 27" iMac - adding eSATA, displaying all of Hamlet, and turning it into a monitor. That last bit has become increasingly handy latel...
