Posts by uppland2

IBM CIO leaves for AWS – and Big Blue flings sueball to stop him

Sales figures for 2017Q1 circulated in the press suggest MUSD 3500 for AWS, 1400 for M$, 600 for Google, and 500 for IBM.

Multics resurrected: Proto-Unix now runs on Raspberry Pi or x86

Re: Anything we should steal ? - Definitely

"Its virtual memory implementation comes to mind: in Multics, "files" were really persistent memory segments, i.e. all files were "memory-mapped" in Unix-parlance."

Like OS/400 and AIX?

Re: Anything we should steal ? - Definitely

Like OS/400 and AIX?

Hell, high water, and ice: Facebook's Dublin data center choices

Re: Yes tax

Malta is an English-speaking country in the Euro currency...

IBM bets the farm on big data in annual report

Re: Big Blue is not stupid

Upon which facts are you basing you assumption? It is well known how they acted during the Great Depression and the System/360 effort.

Traditional RAID is outdated and dying on its feet

Re: Yawn..

Hm, Isilon and 3PAR were both founded after GPFS became commercially available.