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With the advent of Amazon S3 and its remarkably cheap storage costs, creating services based on scalable storage has never been so easy and inexpensive as it is today. One area where this is most apparent is the boom of network backup products. In years past, companies like Iron Mountain or EMC would have to [ READ MORE ]
Let’s take a brief look at what I would call the bottom-line total cost of ownership (TCO) of the original 8GB iPhone versus the forthcoming 8GB iPhone 3G. That is, the TCO of each iPhone with equal data (unlimited), voice (450 min), and SMS text messaging (200 txts). (Above I’ve charted the initial cost of the [ READ MORE ]
It’s always difficult to try to gather accurate statistical data on operating system market share in the public sector. However, while Stanford University users can purchase any computer they want, they have to report their computer and OS into a database in order to access the Internet from Stanford campus. By looking at that data, [ READ MORE ]