ORLANDO — In Gartner’s list of the top 10 trends in IT infrastructure and operations are multiple threats and opportunities for data center operations. Among the threats is the exodus of baby boomers and the emergence of a younger generation that’s been less loyal to corporate employers and are more likely to move to another…
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Judge Refuses to Exclude Troublesome Google Email
Google has lost its appeal to keep a potentially damaging email away from the jury in the company’s legal fight with Oracle over Java. Judge William Alsup, who is hearing the case, on Thursday upheld an earlier ruling that the email should remain part of the court record. The email, written by a Google engineer,…
RAMCloud: When Disks and Flash Memory are Just Too Slow
As storage customers look for a way off the spinning disk merry-go-round, SSDs have become the hottest gadgets in the enterprise. But a team of computer scientists at Stanford University think they can do even better. The researchers have come up with a scalable, high performance storage approach dubbed RAMCloud — RAM because it stores…