Bitcoin 2013 conference: the future of money?
I had many questions about Bitcoin (BTC) and how it works. Some of them got answered.
I had many questions about Bitcoin (BTC) and how it works. Some of them got answered.
By day, an Expo getting serious again about refocusing on the user. By night, a bit gritty and underground.
This last fortnight there’s been a cacophony of hyperbole and at times marketing fluff from vendors and analysts with regards to Reference Architectures and Converged Infrastructures. As IBM launched PureSystems, NetApp & Cisco decided it was also a good time to reiterate their strong partnership with FlexPod.
All conferences involve a measure of back-slapping, but Oracle has gone too far this year — it's forgotten that it needs to tell attendees about the future.
Microsoft is running an ad in USA Today, in the form of an open letter to VMware customers, asking them to talk to Microsoft before signing a contract that might lock them in to a less-than-complete cloud solution from Redmond's foremost virtualization rival.
I'm on my way to the Uptime Institute's How to Plan, Justify, and Manage a Major Data Center Project seminar in Atlanta, GA. I hope to meet some of the attendees as well as members of the Institute's staff.
I've been running from meeting to meeting at IDG World Expo's OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/CloudWorld Conference at the Moscone Center in the heart of beautiful San Francisco (see OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld.)Here are my initial impressions of the event:The event is significantly smaller than any I can remember in the past.
News headlines about portable storage devices going missing are as common as muck, but the problem could be even more widespread than you suspect.
There's only one thing better than a convenient scorecard for measuring your performance as a storage manager: a convenient scorecard for measuring your performance as a storage manager that also lets you think about Billie Piper or John Barrowman a lot.
Company claims that it can half power and cooling costs in data centres as it announces a raft of products at its Las Vegas conferences