Smokin' Enterprise SAS SSDs!

According to the following story in Computer World, Western Digital is releasing some awesome UltraStar SS300 SAS SSD devices in the 400GB - 3.2TB capacity ranges. Impressive e-storage technology!

2014 Disruptors from CNBC

Some interesting and disruptive companies profiled in this CNBC article.

The Memristor - Putting Moore's law back on track

Haven't heard much at large from HP Labs until this, which I heard Meg Whitman reference several times in a recent talk she gave. Likely this puts the AI evolutionary curve back on track, perhaps making the extrapolation discussed in Louis Del Monte's book increasingly plausible :-)

I'm so happy someone else wonders about these things, too

It's occurred to me on multiple occasions that if a hacker or agent can spoof software update processes, they can easily gain complete control of an end user system. So far, no such exploits have been seen to my knowledge, though.

Anyway, here's a serious yet ultimately humorous discussion of potential software update system exploitation - and how it might perceptually relate to cloud computing.

Cloud Storage Drivers

On-line collaboration services are well-suited for hosted storage within the cloud. Services like on-line groups, blogs, wikis, and the like will easily drive the growth of cloud storage, since it's accessible from anywhere, allows storage consolidation for all client types, scales uniformly, and can be backed up easier than locally-hosted storage.

Cloud Storage that makes sense

An interesting article about Ubuntu One cloud storage. One possible application: A bookmarks app, which allows your Firefox bookmarks to be shared and managed among all the computers you use.