nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote in news:130720082133102731%
nospam@nospam.invalid:
> http://www.apple.com/xserve/
Hmm...I see. Well, obviously, it wasn't enough....(c;
I pictured someone as large as Apple with something like:
http://www.emc.com/solutions/index.htm
using storage solutions like:
http://www.emc.com/products/family/symmetrix-family.htm
15000 RPM disk drives are not fast enough so:
" Availability
EMC plans to offer flash drives in 73 GB and 146 GB capacities for the
Symmetrix DMX-4 platform beginning later in Q1 2008."
which are 30 times faster....
I have a friend who is a field service engineer for EMC, here. What an
amazing combination of hardware and software solutions they have....
....and it's mostly transparent to the end user if it bombs. The master
processor simply takes out of service whatever massive memory board or
drive has errors, calls EMC on its own phone line telling EMC's
dispatching computer what's wrong and where and what parts need
swapping. My friend's pager goes off as the core processor makes a
trouble ticket all without human intervention. He gets the trouble
ticket over the sellphone data circuits because he lives on the road,
drops by one of their prepositioned warehouses to pick up the part or
has it directly delivered overnight to the site. He shows up, opens the
box, hotswaps the parts then hangs around until the box's core computer
is happy with the new device and cancels the trouble ticket, itself.
It's a good thing computers aren't allowed to drive......
.....humans still have some, small but significant use to them.
Oh I wanted that super fast 100,000 RPM IBM drive he let me hold in my
hot, grubby, sweaty hands for a few minutes.....(c;
You should hear its faint, nearly inaudible, whine as it powers up....
(pant)
European retailers were sold out of the new iPhone 3G before stores in the US even opened
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