Now, what Google
announced is really
exciting! I'm not
kidding. It's even better
than I hoped. Yes, it's
only Python, but IBM's
PC-DOS was only BASIC and
Pascal when it first came
out, and it didn't
matter. Yeah, I preferred
C, but I coded in Pascal
because that's what you
had to do to get an app
running. What you're
going to see here that
you've never seen before
is shrinkwrap net apps
that scale that can be
deployed by civillians.
That's a mouthful, but
that's what's coming.
Why? Because here is a
standardized platform
that can be stamped out
in the billions of units.
Maybe Google can't do it,
but the perception is
that they can. Who is
willing to stand up and
say Google hasn't nailed
scaling? What PCs did in
the 80s, Google is doing
now. PCs took the black
magic out of owning a
computer.
Much is being made about
network attached storage
(NAS) and storage area
networks (SANs) as
options for the
high-volume data storage
needs of modern
enterprises. Yet when you
look closely, these are
not competing solutions,
but rather complementary
technologies that are
best suited to different
tasks.
Managing the surge of
file-based data has
become increasingly
difficult and complex.
Virtualizing NAS through
Network File
Virtualization (NFV)
simplifies storage
management and enables
administrators to easily
address management and
utilization challenges
without affecting data
access.
In an agreement forged
between Azul Systems and
influential Japanese IT
distributor, Nissho
Electronics, Japan will
become the first country
to offer network-attached
processing capabilities
for Java and J2EE
platform-based
applications. Nissho will
utilize Azul's compute
appliances, which use
network attached
processing to unbound
compute resources for
Java.
Aimed at small-to-medium
size businesses and based
on a unique
patent-pending design and
technology, EMC has
launched a
customer-installable
networked storage system
capable of storing up to
three terabytes of
information with
integrated functions for
simple management and
advanced protection.
EMC information storage
systems with five
terabytes of capacity -
the equivalent of five
million books, one
million digital photos,
or 200,000-300,000 MP3
files - have just been
donated by EMC to 6
schools local to the
Hopkinton, MA-based
storage giant.
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Now, what Google
announced is really
exciting! I'm not
kidding. It's even better
than I hoped. Yes, it's
only Python, but IBM's
PC-DOS was only BASIC and
Pascal when it first came
out, and it didn't
matter. Yeah, I preferred
C, but I coded in Pascal
because that's what you
had to do to get an app
running. What you're
going to see here that
you've never seen before
is shrinkwrap net apps
that scale that can be
deployed by civillians.
That's a mouthful, but
that's what's coming.
Why? Because here is a
standardized platform
that can be stamped out
in the billions of units.
Maybe Google can't do it,
but the perception is
that they can. Who is
willing to stand up and
say Google hasn't nailed
scaling? What PCs did in
the 80s, Google is doing
now. PCs took the black
magic out of owning a
computer. 
Much is being made about
network attached storage
(NAS) and storage area
networks (SANs) as
options for the
high-volume data storage
needs of modern
enterprises. Yet when you
look closely, these are
not competing solutions,
but rather complementary
technologies that are
best suited to different
tasks. 
Managing the surge of
file-based data has
become increasingly
difficult and complex.
Virtualizing NAS through
Network File
Virtualization (NFV)
simplifies storage
management and enables
administrators to easily
address management and
utilization challenges
without affecting data
access. 
IT groups need to be able
to consider adopting new
backup software for many
good reasons. New
software might have
features and benefits the
company needs. The curren
Unlike older spam
filters, in which the
author programs the
characteristics of spam,
statistical filtering
automatically chooses the
characteristics (or
'features')