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Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 -- the service that started it all

All Things Distributed

Storage was one of our biggest pain points, and the traditional systems we used just weren’t fitting the needs of the Amazon.com retail business. When we took a hard look at our storage for the Amazon ecommerce web site in 2005, we realized that the majority of our data needed an object (or key-value) store.

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Cloud Storage 2.0 Set To Dominate Market

Cloud Musings

The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent storage market history is needed to understand why this transition is important. is already with us.

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VMware by Broadcom: The First 100 Days

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s fully software-defined compute, networking, storage and management – all in one product with automated and simplified operations. From September 2005 to January 2008, he served as chairman of the board of Integrated Device Technology. VCF is a completely modernized platform for cloud infrastructure.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - A Decomposition Storage Model

All Things Distributed

Not everybody agreed that the "N-ary Storage Model" (NSM) was the best approach for all workloads but it stayed dominant until hardware constraints, especially on caches, forced the community to revisit some of the alternatives. A Decomposition Storage Model , George P. Copeland and Setrag N.

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Generative AI’s most noble mission: Improving and saving lives

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2005, it took six years to sequence the full human genome. However, the first step—getting the right kind of storage infrastructure—helps to ensure AI’s final mile. Many organizations today have data storage systems that were not built to handle AI, which can halt AI processing. View the TGen customer case study.

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How to preorder the new Arm-based Mac computers

The Verge

Following the “One More Thing” hardware event, Apple has announced its new line of Arm-based Macs powered by Apple’s own processors , replacing Intel, which has been used in Mac laptops and desktops since 2005. You can get the Air model with an M1 chip, an eight-core processor and seven-core GPU , and 256GB of storage for $999.

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Apple announces MacBook Air with Apple’s Arm-based M1 processor

The Verge

inch 2560 x 1600 Retina display with P3 wide color gamut support and 400 nits of brightness, a backlit scissor-switch keyboard and up to 16GB of memory and 2TB of storage. The release is the first step in Apple’s transition away from Intel processors, which Apple’s computers have used since 2005. It supports Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.0,

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