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Future of Mobile Data Networks

February 18th, 2010 · No Comment

Anything can be communicated via the Internet.  It readily connects everyone to emails, web, television, and voice.  It is where mobile computing’s future lies. The mobile industry seems to be shifting focus to Everything-Over-IP. Traditionally, a mobile phone is used to communicate voice conversations.   The question now is who needs mobile voice?  Texting has becoming [...]

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Google Data Center Efficiency

April 9th, 2009 · No Comment

Google is leading the way in “Green IT” initiative when they started, in 2005, making their massive data center infrastructure as efficient as possible.  Their approach is definitely radical and unorthodox.  First using 12V batteries for each machine.  Then, using AAA shipping containers to house the numerous servers.  Google is an engineering company so obvioiusly they’re obsessed [...]

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Solid State Storage

December 24th, 2008 · No Comment

Storage technology has gone a long way.  Back in the 90′s, I used to install 20 MB hard drives that cost hundreds of dollars and weigh a ton.  Now, hard drives are so cheap and capacity has now broken the terabyte barrier!   The next step in storage technology is in solid state drives, using flash memory chips.   Toshiba announced the [...]

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