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An IPO Pick-Me-Up

Posted by Chris on June 19, 2012 in News

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At this point, I’m sure even Helen Keller knows about the Facebook IPO fiasco – and she’s dead. But in the aftermath of one of the most botched public offerings to date that has left investors stingy and companies fearful to go public (especially on NASDAQ). One company however – Workday – is about to [...]

Water in the Datacenter

Posted by Mark on June 19, 2012 in IT

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Think water cooling is just for gaming rigs due to all that heat put off by overclocking CPUs and memory? Think again: Google, Facebook and other big names are using state-of-the-art water cooling inside their datacenters to keep all that heat put off from user data and ad revenue at a manageable level, and at [...]

The Single Level Store Atop SSDs in the Enterprise

During the mainframe era when MULTICS, the IBM AS/400 and similar systems were all the rage, the concept of the single level store was considered superior: processes saw only a flat memory address space, and it was up to the OS to determine whether an address seen by a process was located on disk, in [...]

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