15th November 2009 Archive
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IT admins: we don't need no stinkin' servers
Cloud says shops want clouds
Here's a newsflash. A company that rents server capacity for a living and who hosts such questionable customers as El Reg has commissioned a poll of IT shops and found that half of them wish they would never have to buy another server again. Everybody calm down. With that kind of talk, cloud computing could just turn out to be …
Servers 15 Nov 06:02
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How can the storage industry prevent cloud bursts?
Comment Out of sight, out of mind - but not out of harm's way
If you send your data to the cloud today you might be sure of a big surprise: it could vanish. SwissDisk users know this and T-Mobile Sidekick users know that Microsoft is quite capable of losing their data, too. Stephen Foskett is Director of Consulting at cloud storage provider Nirvanix. He writes: Subpar offerings from …
Storage 15 Nov 08:02
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The best mad scientist memoir of the year
Book review Zuppero's zingy tale of space travel and bonkers weaponry
The best mad scientist autobiography this year, perhaps the only one, is Tony Zuppero's To Inhabit the Solar System. Better still, it's free and in time for holiday reading. It's a long but definitely not windy 391 pages. In it, Zuppero confirms everything - bad, weird, insane, amusing or simply astonishing - you might have …
Space 15 Nov 10:02
