I think the storage company Nimble may have figured this out.
The Storage Tipping Point
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What makes you think they have? Do you have a blog post or statistical data that supports this notion? Please, share!
Not yet but the rep is taking us to the big game— a fully catered private box. I'm sure I'll hear about it there.
Re: The Storage Tipping Point
#23Wait till memresistors get here. That will basically eliminate the distinction between ram and disk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor#1808 "They can potentially be fashioned into non-volatile solid-state memory, which would allow greater data density than hard drives with access times similar to DRAM, replacing both components.[14] HP prototyped a crossbar latch memory that can fit 100 gigabits in a square cen…
They seem to be here.
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True. Add that many "inventions" in virtualization field were in VM/370 in... the 70's. Including running itself on itself which has been celebrated in several news articles for different prototypes over the past few years. Except that was a production system. ;)
Add that IBM tried to kill VM multiple times, and wanted everyone using System/360 to standardize around OS/360. "The Mythical Man-Month" is the story of OS/360. Hence VM still exists.
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What makes you think they have? Do you have a blog post or statistical data that supports this notion? Please, share!
Not yet but the rep is taking us to the big game— a fully catered private box. I'm sure I'll hear about it there.
Sporting events seem like an inefficient place to transfer technical details. They're rather distracting.