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  • Did Google just doom the lot of small-scale cloud providers?

    I feel a little back for Rackspace. If I was doing any hosting of web apps or hosting, I would definitely choose RackSpace as they seemed to cater to individuals and business as well. And they had good packaged up services like WordPress hosting and the like. I would hate for RackSpace to become a victim in the AWS and Google price war. Hopefully all will survive this period and come out stronger on the other side.

    Derrick Harris's avatarGigaom

    About a year ago, I wrote a post comparing cloud computing providers to fast-food chains. I called Amazon(s amzn) Web Services the McDonald’s of the cloud, Rackspace(s rax)the Wendy’s and Google(s goog) — in a close third place — the Burger King. Since then, Google has been steadily creeping up on Rackspace and, on Tuesday, it blew the doors off with massive price cuts, progressive pricing models, and new features that firmly established Google as a visionary and AWS’s primary competition.

    Google’s newfound cloud prowess was the major theme of our Structure Show podcast this week. Barb Darrow and I discussed reactions to the news and what it means for other top-tier cloud providers such as IBM(s ibm) Softlayer, Microsoft(s msft) and Rackspace. Our guest, Ben Whaley of Anki (it makes an artificial intelligence-based toy racing system), said that although his startup is a happy AWS shop, Google looks a…

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  • DDR4 Heir-Apparent Makes Progress | EE Times

    The first DDR4 memory module was manufactured ...
    The first DDR4 memory module was manufactured by Samsung and announced in January 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    The current paradigm has become increasingly complex, said Black, and HMC is a significant shift. It uses a vertical conduit called through-silicon via (TSV) that electrically connects a stack of individual chips to combine high-performance logic with DRAM die. Essentially, the memory modules are structured like a cube instead of being placed flat on a motherboard. This allows the technology to deliver 15 times the performance of DDR3 at only 30% of the power consumption.

    via DDR4 Heir-Apparent Makes Progress | EE Times.

    Even though DDR4 memory modules have been around in quantity for a short time, people are resistant to change. And the need for speed, whether it’s SSD’s stymied by SATA-2 data throughput or being married to DDR4 ram modules, is still pretty constant. But many manufacturers and analysts wonder aloud, “isn’t this speed good enough?”. That is true to an extent, the current OSes and chipset/motherboard manufacturers are perfectly happy cranking out product supporting the current state of the art. But know one wants to be the first to continue to push the ball of compute speed down the field. At least this industry group is attempting to get a plan in place for the next gen DDR memory modules. With any luck this spec will continue to evolve and sampled products will be sent ’round for everyone to review.

    Given changes/advances in the storage and CPUs (PCIe SSDs, and 15 core Xeons), eventually a wall will be hit in compute per watt or raw I/O. Desktops will eventually benefit from any speed increases, but it will take time. We won’t see 10% better with each generation of hardware. Prices will need to come down before any of the mainstream consumer goods manufacturers adopt these technologies. But as previous articles have stated the “time to idle” measurement (which laptops and mobile devices strive to achieve) might be reason enough for the tablet or laptop manufacturers to push the state of the art and adopt these technologies faster than desktops.

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  • The rebirth of the Ishtar Gate

  • Ex-Spotify Engineers Raise $2.2 Million For Lookback, A Mobile App Screen Recorder For User Testing

    I might find an app like this useful depending on how “cloud-based” it actually is. To date we have used Panopto Focus Recorder for this type of job, and it is fully cloud -hosted with recordings being uploaded in the background to the big website/database in the sky.

  • Microsoft Launches Office For iPad, Available At 11am PT Today

  • Last.fm Shuts Down Its Streaming Service To Focus On Scrobbling

    I never subscribed to Last.fm as I had already bought music for the keeping and owning. Discovering and streaming were not my thing. But now Spotify has sucked all teh air outta the room and Last.fm is closing up shop. I’m beginning to think now that iTunes has streaming/radio available Spotify is going to have to really kick it up a notch to stay relevant and profitable.

  • In Response To Google, Amazon Announces Massive Price Cuts For S3, EC2, ElastiCache, Elastic MapReduce And RDS

    The game is on, and I would hope the big players hosting their big web apps (Box.com, Spotify, etc.) will benefit as much as the small guys. I doubt however it’s all that easy to host/de-host once you marry yourself to a particular cloud hosting provider. But this price competition can only be a good thing.

  • A Brief History Of Oculus

    It’s important to know the full implications of Facebook buying Oculus. Let’s first start with the history lesson,… how did we get here?

  • The Creator Of “Doom” Is Now A Facebook Employee

    It’s true, John Carmack did take up residence at Oculus. Makes me wonder how long he is for the new mashup. I would like to think Facebook will treat it like an independent subsidiary able to chart its own course. That would be best for everyone.

  • Financial Firms Looking To Linux, Windows 7 As XP Support Dries Up

    I think the same was true in the era prior to WinXP (2001), when IBM’s OS/2 was the only game in town for the ATMs. They migrated once, they can do it again.