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Submission + - How Japan's Data Centers Survived The Earthquake (itworld.com)

jfruhlinger writes: "A lot of Japan's infrastructure was knocked offline by this year's massive earthquake and tsunami, but its data centers by and large stayed running. How'd they pull it off? Good architecture and good planning, for the most part. But the data centers still face challenges in post-quake Japan, not least a new law mandating reductions in power use."
Chrome

Submission + - Chrome hits 20% share as Microsoft continues slide (networkworld.com)

jbrodkin writes: "Google Chrome's rise in popularity has been remarkably fast and it's just hit a new milestone: more than 20% of all browser usage, according to StatCounter. Chrome rose from only 2.8% in June 2009 to 20.7% worldwide in June 2011, while Microsoft's Internet Explorer fell from 59% to 44% in the same time frame. Firefox dropped only slightly in the past two years, from 30% to 28%. While other browser trackers show Chrome with a lower percentage, there's a reason: StatCounter tracks total surfing, not the number of users. It's the Web's power users who are pushing Chrome to new heights."

Comment Re:Hardly the most-anticipated 24 hours (Score 1) 243

Not for lack of trying, but with the vast majority of the people, even the tech-aware ones, the typical reaction to anything "IPv6" is: "Wha..?", leading to lack of interest at first mention.

Which 24 hours sine Y2K were more anticipated? The launch of the iDevices? Is that really the tech industry? I work in networking (at a large web-based content-provider), and in "the field", this is a very, very important day (which we all hope shall pass relatively silently).

Comment Re:Faster than silicon (Score 1) 98

Modulating broad-spectrum light at 1GHz is still way better than modulating an electrical signal at 1GHz. So for on-chip silicon circuits there would still be a huge gain at current "clockspeeds".

It's nice to think about this tech on a large (optic-fiber networks) scale, but the applications on a small (silicon wafer) scale are, IMHO, more interesting.

Comment Re:Amazing. (Score 1) 794

I completely, totally and utterly agree. Also, as a Christian, I'd like to note that many Christians agree with this. Groups as in TFA are increasingly rare to find, especially in the educated parts of western society. They won't be missed when they're gone, I'll tell you...

Parent's last two sentences sum it all up nicely. Thanks for those!

Comment Re:CSCO forward guidance is low (Score 1) 87

How is FC1 more reliable than Ethernet? Both are (in this case) supposed to run on fibre and reliability mostly depends on how the network layer is implemented. In this case, everything from layer three up is identical. In the case of FCoE, the main advantage besides convergence is speed.

I'd still go for iSCSI, by the way. Even cheaper, and routable if need be. For truly mission-critical stuff: use DAS.

Comment Re:Bonus (Score 1) 405

If you're willing to change the system so that the jury-trial disappears, change it so that the judges are decently competent.

Here in the Netherlands we have no juries and my gut-feeling is that the system here is not perfect, but most certainly not worse than any country with juries.

Comment Re:Chill out... (Score 1) 347

This is one of the reasons why, sometimes, I'm glad to get to go to the data-centre and *build* stuff. It's enormously satisfying to spend a few days to rack up a few cabinets full of shiny new kit in between weeks of working behind a monitor fixing configurations and stuff.

Besides, it's a good feeling to know that the common bias of us geeks being afraid of physical work is wrong. Yes, your back hurts after racking a few blade chassis, but at least you feel like you did something. Certainly did a lot more tangible work than those guys over at marketing...

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