It’s time to go Lambda. I’m not talking about your fraternity pledging days. I’m talking about Amazon’s Lambda,? Amazon Web Service’s new contribution to the computer programming world.
According to Amazon Web Service’s CTO Werner Vogels, Lambda will allow programmers to reduce effort on their part. All they’ll have to do is write the code, define event triggers, and the program will automatically run after that. This is expected to save the programmer time, money and work. Lambda is also expected to do the managing, scaling and monitoring. Less than a second after an event is triggered, it’s processed through cloud functions. Lambda can follow principals of function business logic, data business states and interactions in between, as well as the basics. Though Lambda only supports Java script for the time being, but Mr. Vogels assures it will support other computer languages as this service becomes more well known. It’s advised that after you create your function, you give it content and resources at that time. Amazon is giving consumers the free sample to entice our potential appetite for Lambda. For those who are willing to attempt this endeavor, Amazon Web Service will provide a million free request a month and 3.2 million seconds of computer time a month.
It’s been eight years since Amazon got into the web service game. It’s now up there as one of the top. Back in 2012, Amazon was voted the best cloud provider of them all, beating out names like Microsoft, Verizon/Terremark, and Century Link/Savvis. So they’re in good position to make this announcement about their Lambda service. However, I’m a little weary of the promises it will do all the managing, scaling, and monitoring for you. If that can be pulled off, great! But at the moment, it sounds a little too good to be true. What do you think of Amazon Web Service’s Lambda?
Hewlett-Packard, one of the biggest computer makers ever, is splitting up. The newer company will aim at building computer storage, data service equipment, software services and other business technical services. The other company will continue to build computers and printers.
Both companies will still be traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The new business technology oriented company is called Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. This split up will be official around October 2015, when their 2015 fiscal year ends. The split will take place under the leadership of Meg Whitman, HP’s chief executive. She didn’t like the split at first, but after watching her competitors on all sides thrive, she saw it was necessary, believing this will give the company a much needed competitive edge. They’re not the first and only ones to do this. Other mega tech conglomerates from IBM to Microsoft have either split up their company or gone totally private (which means they don’t have public shareholders to answer to).
Hewlett-Packard has been struggling for years now. In fact, this split up is part of the company’s five year program to turn things around. It goes to show you how critical business and cloud technology has become. These days, millions of systems can become one entity, thanks to the cloud. This cuts the server out and computers can interact with each other better than ever before. As more businesses realize this and change their storage and data habits, Hewlett-Packard couldn’t have picked a better time to take advantage of this trend. But this company has been through so much in recent years. This divide will split over $112 billion worth of revenue. Stocks are up 5% thanks to this move, but this move will also cost 5,000 jobs.? Can HP use this split to turn the company around? Will HP Enterprise succeed by serving businesses with these critical services? Or will it be too little too late?
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Gone are the days of floppy disk; thank goodness! Today, the hard drive is what’s holding and transporting our precious and often critical information. But the hard drive I’m about to talk about is unlike any other.
Submitted for your approval is the first ever 10TB hard drive. It’s official name is the Western Digital Ultrastar He10. It’s still in the sampling phase, but this is only a part of Western Digital’s production push. Not only is there this 10TB helium-filled hard drive, there is the 8TB helium-filled hard drive and a 6TB air-filled hard drive. The Western Digital 10TB has helium that is sealed in the drive. It provides less resistance than regular air and requires less power, consuming nearly a fourth less energy than other hard drives. This 10TB drive uses SMR, or shingled magnetic recording. This increases areal density, which is especially good for cloud and cold storage. The Western Digital 6TB air-filled hard drive is being shipped. The Western Digital Ultrastar He10 is very much in testing phase. I have no information on a debut date, so don’t go rushing to your computer store just yet.
But when this comes out, it shouldn’t be as expensive as one may think. The 6TB goes for around $400-$500. The 10TB is suspected to go around $1,000 when the shipping, selling and buying starts. Western Digital claims this drive will have the lowest cost per gigabyte. I guess we’ll see. Keep in mind this will be a novelty item, the first of it’s kind. I wonder if that will factor into the pricing, and even the release date of the Ultrastar He10. I’m no scientist or environmentalist expert, but this sounds energy friendly. But more to the point, you can get lots and lots of data on this thing, maybe even too much (yes, I do believe there is a such thing). So is the ultimate hard drive going to be a hit or flop?
Labor Day is a fun holiday for most people. You get a long weekend, spend time with your family, BBQ’s, you name it. It also marks the end of the summer for most people. Which means back to school for students and teachers. And on days like today, the end of vacation season and back to the grind for business people like lawyers and major corporations. Some of you are starting off your collegiate career today, and others are saying the final goodbye to their kids as they start their journey in life on their own.
With this comes issues in life, you write that first term paper, ya know the one that will set the tone for your entire academic career, and BOOM your drunk roommate spills his beer on your laptop. The world is ending, or is it? We here at Computer Geeks can help you. First thing you want to do is make sure the machine is completely off and unplugged. Then call us up to go over your options. If you can wait a few days, then it is best to do so, leave your PC off and upside down for a few days so it can dry out, before we come out to assess the damage and clean it out. If your needs are more pressing, we can come out right away and extract the hard drive and attempt to do data recovery for you. As well as set you up with a data backup solution so you never have to worry again.
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