June 2007 - Posts

• What's RAID?

  This blog is a primer for a series of other posts I have planned to discuss performance, availability, and scalability of disk IO solutions. RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. (While some of the high-end SCSI and fiber disks are far Read More... Posted Thursday, June 28, 2007 8:12 AM by Brad | 2 Comments

• Microsoft Surface

  While it is nice to have improvements to current technologies, like Microsoft seems to have focused on the past few years, I've been waiting for something to come out of Redmond that is truly new and innovative. Microsoft Surface just might be the Read More... Posted Sunday, June 17, 2007 4:27 PM by Brad | 0 Comments

• SSD: Solid State Drive storage

  With the little keychain sized portable storage "sticks" often exceeding 1GB now, I knew it was only a matter of time before we would have some large storage viable for everyday use. Solid State Drives are like those little storage sticks, but Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:33 AM by Brad | 2 Comments

• Visits, Page Views, Hits – Huh?

  When discussing their web site traffic, different people often use different metrics. Three common metrics I see are Visits, Page Views, and Hits. If someone states that their application gets 1,000 X per day, depending on the metric used, the statement Read More... Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:11 AM by Brad | 4 Comments