Tag Archives: hardware

Zettabytes and Beyond

Posted on March 21, 2013 by way0utwest

The old Carl Sagan quote about billions and billions of stars in the universe doesn’t seem so large anymore. In fact, a billion of anything, while a large number, seems immense only until we talk about the scale of data. How much data … Continue reading →

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Serious Storage

Posted on March 19, 2013 by way0utwest

Years ago I worked for a company that had a Novell network. We had a multi-server environment with lots of users and were having issues with both space and users. We bought a Netframe server, packed with 350MB drives and a limited … Continue reading →

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Home Power – Generators

Posted on February 14, 2013 by way0utwest

A slightly off topic post, but since I was asked recently, I thought I’d take my reply, make a post and have it handy for people to refer to. As technology people, electricity is important to us. Without it, we … Continue reading →

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A New Type of Colocation Facility

Posted on January 31, 2013 by way0utwest

Many of us in the technology industry have worked with a data center of some sort. It might be a closet in our employer’s building, a dedicated room with separate power and cooling, or perhaps rented space at a data … Continue reading →

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