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I don’t usually “re-tweet” someone else’s blog post. There are enough bits of information data flying through the Internet that I don’t need to duplicate any more of them. At least, no more than absolutely necessary. However, today I am going to make an exception and draw your attention to a recent post by Amazon [...]

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This past Monday I listened to Tim Brecht of the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo as he presented a paper entitled Our Troubles with Linux and Why You Should Care, a paper [1] co-authored by Tim, Peter Buhr and Ashif Harji which will be presented this coming Monday, 11 July 2011, [...]

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Today we published a whitepaper entitled “SQL Anywhere I/O Requirements for Windows and Linux”, authored by SQL Anywhere engineering. The whitepaper outlines in detail the I/O requirements of SQL Anywhere servers on Windows and Linux platforms to ensure database recovery in the event of media and/or power failure. Here is its abstract: Database servers need [...]

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One thing that the sheer scale of the computing landscape has contributed to the field of Computer Science is the opportunity to study these systems statistically – and in particular to prove or disprove various aspects of hardware and software reliability. With respect to disk drives, several large studies of disk drive reliability [2,3,4,7] have [...]

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