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Google evildoing roundup: the blogosphere responds
I am delighted to see that the reported Google-Verizon deal has been met with fierce outrage on the Internets. Lots of solid coverage and some far cleverer headlines than my own: Wired: “Why Google Became A Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender …
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NYSE opens Mahwah datacenter; high frequency traders like Walmart shoppers on the day after Thanksgiving
Almost a year late and three subcontractors later, NYSE has finally cut the ribbon on their massive $250 million Mahwah facility. If you’ve ever shopped for colo services in North Jersey, you’ve seen the vast deployments of nondescript servers in …
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Seagate throws down the HAMR, enabling 100TB+ HDs
With the current generation of Perpendicular Magnetic Recording-based drives nearing their theoretical limits in the next few years, Seagate has begun exploring the capabilities of Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR), which promises to boost single HD capacity to 200 to 300 …
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Are quad-socket servers twice as good as dual-socket?
AnandTech runs the numbers, and for the first time in a decade, quad-socket and the Xeon 7500 is starting to make sense. Running the traditional benchmarks, folding@home et al., the 7500 still comes up short, but virtualization workloads — the …
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Rackspace crushes it
Morgan Stanley and The Motley Fool are showing Rackspace the love after their quarterly earnings were released late Monday. From The Motley Fool: Revenue grew 23% year-over-year and 4.8% sequentially to $187 million. The managed server hosting segment is still …
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Network and server monitoring on the cheap
Internet Storm Center reached out to its community for suggestions on free and almost-free tools for network management. Free, in our experience, does not necessarily mean lacking in features or utility as compared to the big commercial software offerings (we …
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New storage features in vSphere 4.1
Although Search Storage reports that end users are not as enthusiastic as originally hoped, VMware’s flagship offering’s includes a number of new features designed to improve manageability and performance of backing storage. The new vSphere 4.1 features under VAAIinclude Full Copy …
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Seeking Alpha on Cloud Computing, “The Internet’s Latest Boom”
Seeking Alpha, the cult Wall Street site, pulls together a number of stats on growth in the server side of the Internet: Also, an increasing number of businesses are turning to outsourcing companies, which manage computer rooms for customers and …
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