There's exactly one 4Gb copper FC card and zero 8Gb, the only use I've seen for copper FC is for connecting the bays back to the controllers, from there out it's always fiber optics.
10Gb Ethernet is 8 years old and it's more than fast enough for all but a niche of applications. Heck even with high consolidation ratios most VMWare servers deployed today don't have a need for a 10Gb ethernet port. It's more useful in channelized form ala HP Flex10 or the Palo adapter in Cisco's UCS systems where you can break out specific chunks of bandwidth for various purposes.
The copper solution requires twinax, might as well run fiber as it's easier to deal with at length and can actually fit into the existing raceways (twinax is huge). There's not enough bandwidth and S/N margin in even Cat6A to do 100Gb at 100m, you need Cat7A which was just approved late last year and which requires a full plant re-work who's going to do that when a OM3 fiber installation should be good all the way to 1000Gb.
100Gb isn't for server to server or server to storage connections today, it's for network aggregation (switch to switch ISL's). 40Gb is there for server to storage on some high end configurations.
Nah, thanks to DCE most storage will stay FC using FCoE. What this will do is eventually allow us to get to ridiculous port counts in top of rack and end of row switches and upload all that capacity without requiring a 6" diameter bundle of trunking cables. It will also allow 100Gb to be usable at metro distances since it only requires 4 pairs instead of 10.
Hahaha, sounds like someone who hasn't grasped the concept of a smartphone. I can literally do everything I can do on a laptop on my phone just slightly slower. That's why despite bringing my laptop on my last trip out of town it was only used to watch movies because everything else was taken care of from my phone. I wouldn't have even brought the laptop except I was on call last week and needed to be able to respond at 100% efficiency if there had been an outage. My CEO and chairman of the board both have laptops that are almost never with them, they do all their work away from the office on their Blackberry. It's why email and BES are our highest SLA'd items in the entire infrastructure, email downtime gets more notice than an outage in our ERP system (not that either are common).
Not everyone is running off a corporate email system with such functionality performed server side, in fact I was listening to NPR last night and they were talking about something like 19% of latino homes the phone is the only point of internet access.
The problem is you couldn't have Pandora and Skype running in the background while you composed an email which is a very real scenario for many smartphone users.
This more scholarly article says copper supplies of easily extractable sources might run below demand by 2100, for the next 90 years we'll just see price spikes that lead to additional mines being opened and new sources being sought. Remember the US mineral reports on Afghanistan? There's tons of places on earth where mining has never even really been attempted or seriously studied due to various geopolitical forces.
Yes, they DO grow potatoes in the remote parts of Africa, in fact there's very few inhabited places on the globe where potatoes are not grown, mostly in areas with permafrost.
So? If the current solution has you purchase cathode, anode, and electrolyte and the new solution just anode and cathode it's probably going to be cheaper.
bingo, I'm thinking of the farmers in remote villages in Africa that use cellphones to check market prices to determine when and where to bring their crops to market to optimize their income. Theoretically that's a win-win as well since the prices are higher because there is more demand for his foodstuffs than there is supply.
The reason they add new features to the free reader is to drive sales of the paid creator client, must give the customers a justification for upgrading. Most of it is bloated crud that noone really uses, but some of it is really cool like collections that they added with version 9. Collections enable you to export a folder structure and keep all the relevant metadata intact, we used them with the built-in functionality to have people archive their Lotus Notes email and then had legal redact the results using existing tools and workflows. It saved us almost $500k on a separate archiving product and drastically reduced the workload for our legal department probably resulting in as much or more savings.
Exactly, my phone's got a paltry 480*360 display, trying to display the same presentation on that and a 1080p display is going to be either a complete waste of space on the 1080p or an exercise in frustration on the phone. Luckily we have css and it's a simple matter of using a mobile style sheet to make well designed pages display just fine on the phone. The tv has 12x as much screen realestate so it's pretty much impossible to make a functional design that takes good advantage of both devices unless you separate data and presentation which luckily is exactly what HTML does =)
The problems more around testing and validation than it is about the printer itself. We wasted an ungodly amount of resources getting checks printed correctly for Canadian banks as an example, less than 1mm off on text placement and they rejected them. Going through all the effort and repeated tests with the banks would be very hard to justify for something that can be worked around by simply printing to our Xerox MFP's.
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There's exactly one 4Gb copper FC card and zero 8Gb, the only use I've seen for copper FC is for connecting the bays back to the controllers, from there out it's always fiber optics.
10Gb Ethernet is 8 years old and it's more than fast enough for all but a niche of applications. Heck even with high consolidation ratios most VMWare servers deployed today don't have a need for a 10Gb ethernet port. It's more useful in channelized form ala HP Flex10 or the Palo adapter in Cisco's UCS systems where you can break out specific chunks of bandwidth for various purposes.
The copper solution requires twinax, might as well run fiber as it's easier to deal with at length and can actually fit into the existing raceways (twinax is huge). There's not enough bandwidth and S/N margin in even Cat6A to do 100Gb at 100m, you need Cat7A which was just approved late last year and which requires a full plant re-work who's going to do that when a OM3 fiber installation should be good all the way to 1000Gb.
Nope, more like Intel 40Gbps NIC, $1500. They went out of their way to reuse existing technologies to bring the price per port down at launch.
Yes, but there are routers with multi-terrabit backplanes, 100Gb is for connecting multiple such routers together.
100Gb isn't for server to server or server to storage connections today, it's for network aggregation (switch to switch ISL's). 40Gb is there for server to storage on some high end configurations.
Nah, thanks to DCE most storage will stay FC using FCoE. What this will do is eventually allow us to get to ridiculous port counts in top of rack and end of row switches and upload all that capacity without requiring a 6" diameter bundle of trunking cables. It will also allow 100Gb to be usable at metro distances since it only requires 4 pairs instead of 10.
Yes, and edit the contents if they are office documents or half a dozen other formats.
Hahaha, sounds like someone who hasn't grasped the concept of a smartphone. I can literally do everything I can do on a laptop on my phone just slightly slower. That's why despite bringing my laptop on my last trip out of town it was only used to watch movies because everything else was taken care of from my phone. I wouldn't have even brought the laptop except I was on call last week and needed to be able to respond at 100% efficiency if there had been an outage. My CEO and chairman of the board both have laptops that are almost never with them, they do all their work away from the office on their Blackberry. It's why email and BES are our highest SLA'd items in the entire infrastructure, email downtime gets more notice than an outage in our ERP system (not that either are common).
Not everyone is running off a corporate email system with such functionality performed server side, in fact I was listening to NPR last night and they were talking about something like 19% of latino homes the phone is the only point of internet access.
The problem is you couldn't have Pandora and Skype running in the background while you composed an email which is a very real scenario for many smartphone users.
Amazon DRM is easily stripped.
This more scholarly article says copper supplies of easily extractable sources might run below demand by 2100, for the next 90 years we'll just see price spikes that lead to additional mines being opened and new sources being sought. Remember the US mineral reports on Afghanistan? There's tons of places on earth where mining has never even really been attempted or seriously studied due to various geopolitical forces.
We've been mining copper and zinc for millennia, I don't think we are going to run out tomorrow.
Yes, they DO grow potatoes in the remote parts of Africa, in fact there's very few inhabited places on the globe where potatoes are not grown, mostly in areas with permafrost.
Throw em on the compost heap, a little bit of zinc and copper will help the plants grow and provide additional nutrients =)
Compared to burning kerosene for days or weeks? I'm thinking yeah, that's probably more energy efficient.
So? If the current solution has you purchase cathode, anode, and electrolyte and the new solution just anode and cathode it's probably going to be cheaper.
bingo, I'm thinking of the farmers in remote villages in Africa that use cellphones to check market prices to determine when and where to bring their crops to market to optimize their income. Theoretically that's a win-win as well since the prices are higher because there is more demand for his foodstuffs than there is supply.
A modern version of that using CSS instead of tables for layout would work well for 99+% of the web =)
The reason they add new features to the free reader is to drive sales of the paid creator client, must give the customers a justification for upgrading. Most of it is bloated crud that noone really uses, but some of it is really cool like collections that they added with version 9. Collections enable you to export a folder structure and keep all the relevant metadata intact, we used them with the built-in functionality to have people archive their Lotus Notes email and then had legal redact the results using existing tools and workflows. It saved us almost $500k on a separate archiving product and drastically reduced the workload for our legal department probably resulting in as much or more savings.
Exactly, my phone's got a paltry 480*360 display, trying to display the same presentation on that and a 1080p display is going to be either a complete waste of space on the 1080p or an exercise in frustration on the phone. Luckily we have css and it's a simple matter of using a mobile style sheet to make well designed pages display just fine on the phone. The tv has 12x as much screen realestate so it's pretty much impossible to make a functional design that takes good advantage of both devices unless you separate data and presentation which luckily is exactly what HTML does =)
No, they shouldn't. That's the fundamental idea behind a markup language, separate data from presentation.
Yeah, because a web page should look exactly the same on my smartphone as it does on my 1080p display....
The problems more around testing and validation than it is about the printer itself. We wasted an ungodly amount of resources getting checks printed correctly for Canadian banks as an example, less than 1mm off on text placement and they rejected them. Going through all the effort and repeated tests with the banks would be very hard to justify for something that can be worked around by simply printing to our Xerox MFP's.