Archive For April 23, 2008
It’s not often I come across three interesting notes in the same day but here’s another. Earlier today the Jim Gray Systems Lab was announced and it will be lead by long time database pioneer David DeWitt. This is great to see for a large variety of reasons. First of all it’s wonderful to see…
Earlier today, Amazon AWS announced a reduction in egress charges. The new charges: · $0.100 per GB – data transfer in · $0.170 per GB – first 10 TB / month data transfer out · $0.130 per GB – next 40 TB / month data transfer out · $0.110 per GB – next 100 TB…
Live Mesh has been under development for a couple of years now. Now it’s hear in “technology preview” form. I think the first public mention was probably back in March of last year in a blog entry by Mary Jo Foley that mentioned Windows Live Core (http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=349). Last night Amit Mital, General Manager of Windows…