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Disks Hold Their Own Against Flash On Clouds

April 2, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

With the prices of flash storage coming down fast to meet a kind of parity with disk storage, and solid state memory having obvious throughput and energy savings benefits compared to spinning rust, you might think that disk drives would be pretty much dead out there on the public clouds. …

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How This Battery Cut Microsoft Datacenter Costs By A Quarter

March 13, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

In yet another example of how distributed systems sometimes work better than centralized ones, the hardware engineers at Microsoft have come up with a new battery-backed power supply for their homegrown servers that allows for massive – and expensive – battery rooms to be eliminated from the cloud giant’s datacenters. …

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