I got to visit the studio last Dec... It was pretty cool.

@Breffni-Potter said:

Companies like Dell/HP/Lenovo are getting around the SSD issue by adding 200% markups to them 🙂

Don't get me started!!!

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/900545-purchasing-hardware-from-dell-a-well-intentioned-rant?source=year-in-review

(I was mad, which is rare... I think I had just gotten off the phone with my sales rep lol)

lol. I couldn't care less.

That's nice, but you'll have to convince me that this is news. Fiber network taps have been around for almost as long as fiber. With fiber you can monitor the drop in signal. That's always been the real differentiator, the fact that you can tell you've been tapped.

This really changes the state of "will companies be willing to pay." When it is $300, people are quick to jump on the "of course you have to pay it" bandwagon. But when it is millions, it is much harder to decide that it is worth paying the ransom.

@scottalanmiller It's okay to call them "West Vur-jeye-ners" if we use an Appalachian accent right???

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Here is a more import question about that stat, it's what I call the "Influenza Stat Problem."

Sure, 60% of hacked SMBs will be out of business in six months. But how many would have been out of business anyway? Meaning there are two factors not considered in the statement:

Are companies about to go out of business more likely to be hacked in the first place? Are all SMBs roughly about 60% likely to go out of business in six months?

With influenza when we had a huge epidemic in the US a few years ago they stated the rate of flu deaths and people started to panic. The number was crazy. But only to the clueless.

What they didn't point out, and should never have needed to, was what the death rate was in the general population. It was as if people just forgot that people die naturally too.

If you looked, influenza did not increase your average chance of death... it lowered it. Presumably because people with the flu stopped doing dangerous things, stayed in bed, were constantly monitored, etc. People are most likely to die from things like car accidents, but car accidents are much less likely when you are home sick!

Over here TV is dominated by football. Netflix isn't so big, as it's mainly US series and the big UK series are all on terrestrial (free-to-air) TV. And TV, phone & broadband is generally sold as a single package. So most people get everything from either BT or Sky - TV, land-line, broadband and sports channels.

So perhaps Red Hat is screwing up the Ansible quality? That's a depressing thought.

Looks almost like a Chromebook

I see the use case for these in databases and almost solely there (until they get cheap.) We would need to know a lot about their performance, longevity, reliability, durability, cost, etc. before we could speculate much. Seven times faster is a big deal, that means that things like FusionIO are going to have to rethink what they are doing. And the SATA and SAS bottlenecks would be useless and we'd be forced onto direct PCIe or faster for any hope of getting the speed out of these things. But changes there have been coming regardless because already are drives are bottlenecked by the connection technologies.

If these end up the same price as current flash SSDs but are seven times faster and all other things are equal, that's amazing and we will switch right over and the flash drive is dead. But I suspect that there are many factors that we have yet to discover. And, right now, it's just a long off dream. We will have to see if they really bring these to market.

By and large, though, systems like file servers and application servers are no longer bottlenecked at the datastore layer but on the network, so I would not see most workloads having a reason to upgrade, yet.

I made everyone quit using it. Free skype is better still

Yeah I read that the same way @Kelly .

That's like being paranoid about catching some tropical rain forest virus when you live in the tundra, so you just stay home all day and night.

Yes, after a decade of trying to buy these, suddenly the low power, low cost SBC market has exploded. Now you can get x86, AMD64, MIPS, ARM32, ARM64, FreeScale and more for cheap!