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University of Washington and Microsoft researchers win award for DNA-based data storage

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University of Washington computer science professor Luis Ceze and Microsoft principal research manager Karin Strauss have won a prestigious award from the Association of Computing Machinery for their work on DNA-based data storage systems.

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SINET Announces 2015 Top 16 Emerging Cybersecurity Companies

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Winners to Introduce Innovative Technologies at SINET Showcase in Washington, DC, November 3 & 4, 2015. The selected companies will share their work with buyers, builders, investors and researchers during the SINET Showcase on Nov 3 & 4, 2015 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. ABOUT THE 2015 SINET 16 INNOVATORS.

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the future of the Operating System - LinuxCon 2015 keynote

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Given as a keynote at LinuxCon + CloudOpen Japan 2015. OS in 1960s • IBM OS/360 – First OS that kept track of system resources (program, memory, storage) • CTSS – Introduce scheduling • Univac Exec 8, Burrows MCP, Multics. 2005 - 2015 Distributed Applications Era. OS Provides Isolation & Reliability.

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Former AWS engineers raise $3M to take on tech giants with ‘world’s fastest spreadsheet’

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It’s aiming to fill a gap between pricey spreadsheet tools and software that requires programming skills. ” Fresen and co-founder Nick End are making another startup run after they previously launched a shoe-fitting startup called Shoefitr that was acquired by Amazon in 2015. .”

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Parallel Processing and Unstructured Data Transforms Storage

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(This post originally appeared on Direct2Dell, The Official Dell Corporate Blog) Enterprise storage is trending away from traditional, enterprise managed network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN) towards a more complex environment that includes software-defined and cloud-based solutions.

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Inaugural report from Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy reveals promising climate tech solutions

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They are: hydrogen fuel , which is making strides in production, but lacks a sufficient market for users of the fuel; carbon removal and storage , which will be essential for reaching carbon goals, but is costly and slow to deploy. Different aspects of the effort are funded by private capital and philanthropic donations.

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10 Ways to Flash Forward

Cloud Musings

Not to long ago I was honored to be included as a storage expert in the Dell ebook, “10 Ways to Flash Forward: Future-Ready Storage Insights from the Experts.” This publication provided insight into some of the most recent advances in enterprise storage and gave some excellent recomendations for your advance storage strategy.

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