One trillion bytes. Also TB, Tbyte and T-byte. See tera and space/time.
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- Apple debuts new 21.5" and 27" iMac desktops; aluminum and glass; SD card slot
- I wish I had $2,000 to spend, it sure does look sweetMaybe some day it will go on sale ..... I know, I'm dreaming.....It's Apple having fun with MSThe two companies do like to play with each other from time to time. What better time than when MS is...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- 3D HDTV without glasses? Hitachi has a prototype display for that.
- Sounds like a great way to push file sizes to HUGE.Wait - it displays images at multiple angles? Sounds like a great way to push file sizes to HUGE.Forget terabyte drives - we're gonna have to switch to petabytes.That is, if each angle is going to need its own HD...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-18
- The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing
- Watch this space for future problems! There’s a lot going on in the outsourcing world lately. Things like: - Perot Data Systems being acquired by Dell - ACS getting bought by Xerox Add to these deals,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Fachinformationszentrum Chemie GmbH Improves Information Platform Performance by Up to 30%
- Fachinformationszentrum Chemie GmbH wanted to meet rising performance demands for processing approximately 70 million documents and a 7 terabyte data volume in full-text online databases and update systems to prepare for the sharp increase in both data quantity and number of users over the next few years, due to the...
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- Windows 7 demo: Search tools
- A terabyte here, a terabyte there, and pretty soon you're talking about some pretty serious information overload. It doesn't matter how well organized you are, once your collection of data files and other digital stuff gets big enough, you're going to need some help finding things. ZDNet's Ed Bott takes...
- Videos 2009-09-28
- HP: New Quicklook, revamped Media Smart Server top fall product news
- HP is making some fall announcements today - some new business desktops, some notebook and netbook lineup upgrades and some pretty cool design features, as well. But during a recent preview of the products, there were a couple that really stuck with me. One of them was...
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Buy 3PAR storage, they'll buy a carbon offset certificate
- WTFSeriously... "Carbon Offsets" is a scam in itself. This is beyond insane. You want to be "green", that's fine with me, but once they start imposing mandatory carbon taxes on anyone that's still dumb enough to manufacture things in the United States, it will just be another hidden tax...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- Buy 3PAR storage, they'll buy a carbon offset certificate
- 3PAR wants to be known as the storage vendor that wants you to use less storage. Of course, that means it wants you to use THEIR storage. Craig Nunes, vice president of marketing for 3PAR, figures that businesses in the United States typically buy four times the...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Build a RAID 6 array for $100/TB
- I want one!This would be the ideal replacement for my pair of MediaSmart servers and external 8 drive enclosure.Is that per terabyte, orper 1 trillion bytes. Sorry, I just had to.RE: Build a RAID 6 array for $100/TBWhy not OpenSolaris and ZFS? Both for free download & use. ...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- Iomega's NAS: Is the mainstream ready for network storage?
- I want one! ntntWow, that is monstrously overpriced...$699? You must be joking.I can get an 8(*t)b ReadyNAS for that, and it's a much better box. This isn't just 'kind of overpriced,' this is, 'wow, did the people buying this buy the first thing they saw?!' overpriced.Pricing from Iomega:CAPACITY CONNECTIVITY ITEM...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
- Iomega's NAS: Is the mainstream ready for network storage?
- Is the average household ready for a network-attached storage device? Iomega, an EMC company, sees an opportunity when it comes to mainstream consumers and a storage device that allows all of the PCs in a home to connect to the same storage drive. This week, the company...
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- Hollywood studios offer 'download to own' DivX movies online; Film Fresh the new iTunes?
- Too little, too late?This should have happened a long time ago. Since these files are being downloaded anyway, by charging a fair, low price, these media companies stand to get a lot of cash where they didn't get a dime before.The question is, is it already too late?What about DRM?I...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-26
- Gadget Gal's daily deals: Verbatim wireless mouse, Fantom 1TB external HDD, Bluetooth headsets
- A sale on Bluetooth headsets, a 1-terabyte external hard drive, and a wireless optical mouse. Here are your daily deals for Monday, August 17, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. Get the Fantom G-Force 1-terabyte external hard drive for $69.99 shipped at Buy.com. The drive has a...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Hitachi now shipping 'world's first' 2TB, 7200RPM hard drive
- Hitachi announced on Thursday that it is now shipping the "world's first two terabyte, 7200 RPM hard disk drive," the Deskstar 7K2000. The new 2TB Deskstar is a fourth-generation device that uses Hitachi's five-platter design with relaxed bit density...
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- Netezza launches new data warehouse appliance family
- Netezza on Monday plans to launch its latest data warehousing appliance, dubbed TwinFin. The appliance, the first in a family of them, promises to scale to a petabyte of data at a lower price point. TwinFin will be priced at less than $20,000 per terabyte. The appliance...
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Samsung Spinpoint F3 HDD offers 1TB; 500GB per platter
- Samsung on Wednesday announced a new line-up of high-density hard drives for high-end computing environments, the Spinpoint F3. The new drives operate at 7200RPM with capacities of up to 1 terabyte, thanks to fitting 500GB on each platter: ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- SQL Server Business Intelligence on HP ProLiant DL785 Server
- SQL Server 2008 has enabled to create Business Intelligence applications to large multi terabyte size data warehouses. Some of the new features and architecture improvements have been specifically targeted to scale SQL Server deployments on newer, larger servers offering performances not seen on previous versions of SQL Server. This whitepaper...
- White papers 2009-07-29
- Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB 2.5-in. HDD, $249
- Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB 2.5-in. HDD, $249evolution more than revolutionwith 2.5" 500 GB HDD at about $100, I don't see any ground breaking technology here, more like an early adopter premium.RE: Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB 2.5-in. HDD, $249Due you really want to be storing that much information...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- Paglo SaaS offering provides means to harness untamed collection of log and IT resources data
- Paglo, the IT management software-as-a-service SaaS company, recently announced a new low-cost service that allows companies to tackle the Herculean task of trying to winnow out a rapidly growing mountain of log data. With log data piling up in terabyte leaps and increasing regulatory pressure to maintain...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- IT lessons from Facebook's user name launch
- Facebook has detailed some of the backend moves as it prepared to roll out usernames to 200 million users. The blog post is the latest in Facebook's effort to allow us peak behind the scenes a bit. Facebook allowed its 200 million users to pick names while...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
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