Chris_Mellor
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Storage writer for Blocks & Files. Also on BlueSky.
London, UK
Joined May 2008
Web 3 storage supplier Storj bought by Inveniam -
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Decentralized storage and compute business Storj is being acquired by Inveniam Capital Partners, a data infrastructure company for private markets. Fintech Inveniam’s software enables real-time...
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Starcloud pitches orbital datacenters as cheaper, cooler, and cleaner -
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Orbiting datacenters look feasible with figures from Starcloud showing that power and cooling up in orbit is effectively free once deployed.
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Stray thought: every satellite orbiting the Earth casts a shadow on the Earth when it's between the Sun and the Earth. Stick enough satellites with extended solar panels up in orbit and in a few years time we'll have to worry about global cooling.
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Ever notice distant mountains look blue? 🌄 Trees release protective chemicals that react with ozone → tiny aerosols. Those particles scatter sunlight back to us with a blue tint. Want to dig into why some peaks look green or pink at golden hour? Build your scientific toolbox
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And Sharpe's Storm is pretty good too.
Today was a historic moment for me. I have now seen an advert that I am genuinely interested in and which has made me want to buy the product. There's a new Sharpe book!
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Dell expands AI Data Platform with (Elastic) search, (Staburst) analytics and cuVS -
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The Dell AI Data Platform is getting an Elastic-powered Data Search Engine and a Data Analytics Engine built with Starburst.
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PEAK:AIO bets on open pNFS to take on Lustre -
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PEAK:AIO is adopting parallel NFS (pNFS) as part of its product technology development from a single node system to a scale-out product.
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VergeIO adds private AI and ransomware-resistant snapshots in latest OS release for its ultra-converged data center SW -
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The latest OS release from VergeIO introduces private, on-prem AI and ransomware-fighting immutable snapshots.
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This, like the grooming gang rape inquiry and Jess Phillips lying, and Chagos, is going beyond a farce to grotesque incompetence. Do these idiots want to hand the UK government over to Reform? Lemmings.
It’s like a scene from a farce: Home Office sources have confirmed that one person sent to France under the UK-France treaty – which allows people who cross the Channel to Britain in small boats to be sent back in exchange for bringing the same number in France to the UK via a
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It is almost beyond disgusting that Jess Phillips should behave in this way. She is outright lying if Fiona is right. Hopefully, an MP will pick this up and have her correct herself and apologize to the House of Commons,
My response to Jess Phillips, I don’t know why she is saying my claims are untrue when she knows I have the evidence to prove it
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Veeam snaps up Securiti in $1.7B deal to bolster cyber-resilience portfolio -
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Veeam confirms it is buying Securiti, the cybersecurity startup founded by serial entrepreneur Rehan Jalil, with a $1.725 billion price tag.
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Arcitecta plots next phase with denser database tech and HPC ambitions -
blocksandfiles.com
CEO and founder Jason Lohrey presented his thoughts on Arcitecta and its future at an IT Press Tour event in New York this month.
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Forbes runs a Pure Storage co-founder John Colgrove profile -
forbes.com
Pure Storage’s low-key cofounder John Colgrove joins the three-comma club after signing a flashy deal with Meta amid increasing data storage demand.
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This looks a potent episode.
New Episode! "The ArcGIS Hack That Turned Backups Into a Malware Repository" This episode examines a sophisticated ArcGIS hack that remained undetected for 12 months. The threat group Flax Typhoon c… Player links & show notes:
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New Episode! "The ArcGIS Hack That Turned Backups Into a Malware Repository" This episode examines a sophisticated ArcGIS hack that remained undetected for 12 months. The threat group Flax Typhoon c… Player links & show notes:
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This episode examines a sophisticated ArcGIS hack that remained undetected for 12 months. The threat group Flax Typhoon compromised an ArcGIS server by exploiting w…
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The end of the disk drive bathtub curve -
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Backblaze disk drive failure stats now show the bathtub curve effect could be imaginary.
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But Charlie, oh Charlie, Hamas broke the ceasefire. Any protest from you about that? Oh dear.
Trump’s so called ‘peace deal’ rapidly unravelling, as most expected. Netanyahu has no intention of bringing his genocidal war to a close. He’s only ever pursued a policy of ‘forever war’, which regrettably appears to be at the heart of Israeli grand strategy.
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