PolyServe and Rackable Systems burst past one Gigabyte per second in NAS I/O throughput

PolyServe and Rackable Systems burst past one Gigabyte per second in NAS I/O throughput: "At better than one gigabyte per second, the absolute performance results of these tests are truly impressive', stated Arun Taneja, founder of the Taneja Group, which audited the benchmark results. 'When combined with the right enterprise NAS software features, I think these numbers will grab serious user attention. Especially impressive is that this exceptional throughput was accomplished using standard building blocks - not proprietary platforms built exclusively for NAS."

Cablevision Goes for U.S. Broadband Speed Record - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

Cablevision Goes for U.S. Broadband Speed Record - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com: "I don’t think ultra-wideband will have a significant impact in the second half. I think it’s a long-term strategy. I think the primary user is small business and not residential in the short run."

Web Site Offers Anonymous Chats With Strangers - NYTimes.com

Web Site Offers Anonymous Chats With Strangers - NYTimes.com: "Omegle.com connects its users with random, anonymous strangers for a private, real-time chat. The site, which started last month, was developed by Leif K-Brooks, an 18-year-old amateur Web programmer and high school student in Vermont who was worried that people’s Web interactions had “become stagnant.”"

G.E.’s Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disc - NYTimes.com

G.E.’s Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disc - NYTimes.com

The recent breakthrough by the team, working at the G.E. lab in Niskayuna, N.Y., north of Albany, was a 200-fold increase in the reflective power of their holograms, putting them at the bottom range of light reflections readable by current Blu-ray machines.

Advanced Bash Shell Scripting Guide - $RANDOM: generate random integer

Advanced Bash Shell Scripting Guide - $RANDOM: generate random integer

Normal Distribution approximations.

Normal Distribution approximations.: "Simulating random normal numbers"

10G Ethernet Aims for the Enterprise

Who need 10G Ethernet?

HP Pushes Petabytes

HP Pushes Petabytes - Review Tom's Hardware : High Powered Web Servers from HP and IBM:

"That’s very different from the usual methods for building large storage systems, Callahan says. “A lot of approaches in the past have been a server with direct attached drives, which meant that in order to have a complete switched extreme connection between the server and drives, it had to be fibre channel,” Callahan said."