http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/11/oracle_on_storage/
This is about some comments from Oracle EVP John Fowler. He indicates that disk is dying. He envisions it being replace by flash RAM. And not in our current mode of being an external I/O device, but actually being on the data bus of the CPU. So all active data will be in non-volatile, directly addressable, server memory. Backup will be on high speed (1,380 Tb/hour ==~ 383 Mb/second) tape. Not related to this directly was talk about a Sparc processor with 128 cores and 16,384 threads. John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-691-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
