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Google’s Halloween Logo Made Up Of 6,000 Pounds Of Pumpkins
Oct 31st
There is a special Google logo on Google for Halloween today, the logo is a video of Google’s Doodle team carving the Google logo out of huge pumpkins. One of the pumpkins 1,298 pounds, and many of the others are over 1,000 pounds. Here is the video of the Google logo in action: Here is [...]
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Virtualized Storage and High Availability Made Easy
Oct 20th
On Tuesday, ReadWriteWeb hosted the second in a series of live chats on the changing nature of virtualized storage. We fielded questions on best practices for storage provisioning, reducing storage resources and dealing with low-bandwidth environments.
During the one-hour live chat we had Ruchi Goya, Steve Hindman, Eric Hennessey and John Cronin from Symantec. We also had a lot of questions from the audience and before the chat.
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Reducing Resources
William Olmstead asked, “How will storage virtualization help me reduce my storage resources in my VMware environment?” Hindman responded that storage virtualization could help by combining resources for virtualized servers and desktops into fewer disks. Cronin added, “Space optimized snapshots can use storage more efficiently. For example, in a virtual desktop environment most of the OS images have largely the same bits. If we store 1,000 desktop images, we can save a lot of space if we only use one copy of the things that are the same and then store only the differences.”
Private Only
While a lot of us are using services like Dropbox for personal storage, there’s not much public cloud storage being used by enterprises. Audience member Chris asked for a breakdown of on-site storage versus cloud storage. Right now, says Hennessey, it’s almost all private storage. “Most of the customers I see are in the financial sector, and as such are pretty sensitive to confidentiality, so none I’ve spoken with are using public cloud services. Many, however, are deploying internal private storage clouds.”
Low Bandwidth
Several people were interested in cloud services in countries like Indonesia, where users might not have broadband access. Hindman said that “Application and desktop streaming technologies can provide access to cloud information over low-bandwidth networks. Symantec has an application streaming division as well a number of other companies.”
Hennessey added, “I think that unfortunately we’ll see public storage clouds slow to catch on in those areas for reasons of performance. But who knows, maybe demand for these offerings will drive improvements in bandwidth.”
Polls
We also conducted several polls during the chat. We asked, for example, what people’s biggest concern was with storage: Utilization, scaling capacity, availability, performance or the old standby “other.” Surprisingly, nobody said that utilization was a primary concern. Capacity and performance had 38% each, and availability came in at 25%. (The mathematically inclined may notice that adds up to 101%. Not sure how that works – but that’s the breakdown given by the live chat software.)
Two thirds of our audience said they’re not yet running VDI deployments, and 33% said they are. Why not? Costs and returns on investment (ROI) were tied at 29%, and security concerns and “too new” were at 14% each.
Finally, in what is likely to be good news for SSD manufacturers, 86% of the audience that answered said that they were considering SSD drives for better performance in virtualized environments.
Thanks much to everyone who attended and participated in this live chat. If you missed the chat, you can scroll through the log of the chat embedded here. We’ll be hosting another chat soon, so stay tuned for announcements on that. You can also find out more about Symantec and VMware’s partnership on the VMware Web site.
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Live Chat: Virtualized Storage and High Availability Made Easy – Today @ 10am PT
Oct 18th
Today, Tuesday October 18 at 10 a.m. Pacific, we’ll be holding our live chat on Virtualized Storage and High Availability Made Easy. Like our previous chat on the changing nature of storage virtualization, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the tech of virtualized storage.
The discussion will be led by our very own Joe Brockmeier, and will include Andrew Nelson from VMware, and Ruchi Goya, Fahima Zahir, Eric Hennessey, and Steven Hindman from Symantec.
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The NFL & Fantasy Football: A Match Made in Search Heaven
Oct 17th
It’s October, which means that football season is in full effect! Suffice to say I was eagerly anticipating a resolution to the NFL lockout to ensure there would actually be a season.
I can’t even begin to wonder what I would do on F…
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Report: Nearly Half Of Tablet Owners Made Purchases on Their Devices Last Month
Oct 13th
In September 2011, a whopping 48% of tablet owners made a purchase on their tablet while 52% did not, according to a recent comScore whitepaper report called Digital Omnivores: How Tablets, Smartphones and Connected Devices are Changing U.S. Digital Media Consumption Habits. This is part of a growing trend in tablet usage, ignited by the launch of Apple’s iPad in January 2010.
Of those who did use their tablet to make a purchase, it’s notable that they fully used their tablets to do everything, from product and store research and price comparisons to the final transaction.
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From this chart, it appears as if the devoted tablet users are using their devices for all their shopping activities, whereas the less-frequent tablet users will casually use their devices for shopping.
The same held true for tablet users who perused coupons and daily deals on their devices.
This data isn’t very surprising considering Forrester’s prediction earlier this year that one-third of U.S. consumers will be tablet users by 2015. With Amazon’s release of the Kindle Fire tablet at the end of September, we can only predict tablet popularity continuing to grow.
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The Women Who Made Google Plus: 22 Developers Behind the World’s Fastest Growing Social Network
Oct 7th
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day dedicated to celebrating the world’s first computer programmer and to share inspiring stories about women working in science, technology and math. Surely some of the most significant technical work done by women since this day last year includes the creation of what is said to be the fastest-growing social network in history, Google Plus.
Launched on June 28th and just opened to the public at large late last month, Google Plus is a feature-rich social network with variable privacy and sharing settings at the core of its experience. Who were the women involved in building such a big, important technology? We asked, on Google Plus, and were told about twenty two of them profiled below. They are an incredibly accomplished group of people and a great source of inspiration for young women interested in science and technology – or for anyone else who could use some powerful role models.
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The following are twenty two engineers and web designers identified as integral to the making of Google’s new social network. Not included are a number of Community Management and marketing types, most notably site CM Natalie Villalobos, just because this is a day about computer programmers. Villalobos is included in the Circle below you can follow though.
There were far more people, and far more women, who helped build Plus than those below, of course. Please feel free to add suggestions of Engineers and Designers and as they come in, I’ll add them to this sharable Google Plus Circle that anyone can subscribe to all at once.
Ana Ulin has been a developer at Google since 2005, after she graduated from the Chalmers University Of Technology in Sweden. She’s lived in Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and Palo Alto. She loves to knit and was educated in Electrical Engineering. Ulin is in the picture above in the top right.
Frances Haugen is the Google Plus Profiles and Search Product Manager. She’s been at Google since 2006, has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Olin and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Haugen takes interest in design and data. Haugen is in the bottom left of the photos above.
Denise Ho is a Stanford grad in Computer Science and a product manager at Plus, with a particular interest in the photos product.
Brynn Evans is a UX designer on Plus. We covered Brynn’s joining Google earlier this Summer.
Shimrit Ben-Yair is a Product Manager, and has an undergrad degree in Computer Science, Statistics and Operations Research from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
Olga Wichrowska is an MIT educated computer scientist and software engineer. She’s pictured above on a mountain in Utah.
Kelly Ellis is a software engineer on the Google Plus team. Her life is awesome and she correctly notes on her profile that bubble tea is disgusting. Ellis is the one wearing sunglasses above.
Mimi Sun does software and data visualization for Plus, and comes from Nvidia and Rapleaf.
Lea Kissner is a cryptographer formerly of NASA, Xerox PARC and AT&T.
Tammy Capistrant is an Engineering Programs Manager, has degrees in music performance and education and an MBA and has been at Google since 2003.
Janice MyintG is a Cornell-educated test engineer for Google Plus.
Emily Chang likes to use the feature in Google Plus where you only post things to your approved circles, not publicly, and I can’t find out anything more about her. Chang’s photo is in the bottom right above.
Sigalit Bar is in Israel and is a software engineer.
Jenny Murphy is a software engineer specializing in Developer Relations, which was what she did at Ning, too. Murphy’s the one with the green hair above.
Ye Kim is the UX Lead on Google Plus Mobile and Games; she got a Masters of Design at Carnegie Mellon but began doing design for Google before then. She’s been at Google since the very beginning of the company, in 1997.
Jen Hsieh is a Google+ Mobile Photos Software Engineer, coming to the company from Research In Motion and Morgan Stanley. Hsieh’s photo is in the top left.
Roshni Malani is a software engineer with a PhD. in Computer Science and Engineering from UC San Diego. Malani’s photo is the second from the left on the bottom.
Karen Liu is a software engineer who started at Google last year. She went to Carnegie Mellon University.
Joanne McKinley used to work on the Gmail mobile team, now she’s an engineer on the Google Plus Mobile team.
Shailu Chauhan has been a test engineering manager at Google for 7 years.
Madoka Hayashi has been doing visual design for Google since June.
Irene Chung, Tech Lead & Manager on Google Plus, leads the stream feature of Plus, is widely admired on the team and has been at Google for 5 years, after working at Amazon and IBM.
Thank you, everyone above, for building such a compelling platform for people to share their thoughts with each other. Lives have no doubt been changed by Google Plus already and your work pushing forward the future of social networking is an inspiration.
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Next RWW Live Chat: Virtualized Storage and High Availability Made Easy
Oct 4th
A few weeks ago, we did our first RWW Live Chat with our partners VMware and NetApp. The discussion was very good and proved to be a great way to get your input about a critical issue. Today we’d like to announce our next live chat on Oct. 18 at 10 a.m. PDT. This discussion will focus on “Virtualized Storage and High Availability Made Easy” and will include experts from VMware and also Symantec.
The chat will be moderated by our very own Joe Brockmeier. It also will include Andrew Nelson from VMware, an Ruchi Goya, Fahima Zahir, Eric Hennessey, and Steven Hindman from Symantec.
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This promises to be a very lively discussion with a range of issues and topics covered including:
- How can we improve provisioning and automation for virtual storage?
- What are the current trends/innovations in virtualized storage that companies need to be aware of, but aren’t?
- How is high availability achieved with virtualized storage – and what impact is it going to have on costs, equipment, etc.?
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