storage – Techcitement*

It’s The End Of The World, Dropbox Is Down!

Paul Hurwitz — Thu, 30 May 2013 14:29:46 +0000

UPDATE: Thirty minutes into the outage and Dropbox remains down with no ETA from support on when it will be back up. About 15 minutes ago, I tried getting a Dropbox share link for a PowerPoint slide deck I was working on in PowerPoint. It didn’t work, and then I noticed that it wasn’t synchronizing […]

Flickr Undergoes Quiet, Major Redesign And Adds Massive Storage Limit

Mordechai Osdoby — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:30:52 +0000

Flickr is one of those web services that almost everyone uses, yet it feels like no one talks about. Before Apple had PhotoStream or Google had Picasa, people shared photos via Flickr. Acquired back in 2005 by Yahoo, the image and video sharing site was slowly been getting eclipsed by newer, flashier services. Until yesterday, […]

Newcomer To Cloud Storage, Cubby, Has Big Ideas

Paul Hurwitz — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:37:34 +0000

Last week, Yoni Gross wrote an article comparing four different storage cloud vendors, including the long-awaited Google Drive. All of them have their strengths and weaknesses, with their own devoted followers. Personally, I’ve been using Dropbox for several years. I started with the free 2 GB, and through referrals and the doubling of the referral bonus, […]

No Known Plans For Flux Capacitors, But Memristors Coming In 2013!

Tom Wyrick — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:20:23 +0000

Electronics Weekly announces a new memory technology in development by HP. The memristor (memory resistor) wafers are expected to be ready to market as a substitute for flash storage within the next 18 months. With continued development, the memristors ultimately serve as a replacement for conventional DRAM and SRAM. Senior Fellow at HP, Stan Williams, […]

eBay Says Buy It Now To 100 Terabytes Of SSD Storage

Tom Wyrick — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:40:54 +0000

Online auction giant eBay remedies their growing problem meeting I/O storage requirements with an investment in 100 terabytes of solid state disk storage. Manager of QA Systems Administration, Michael Craft, says “One rack [of SSD storage] is equal to eight or nine racks of something else.” eBay not only saves a considerable amount of physical […]