Tech Insider - GigaOM - Salon.com: "Why Both EMC & NetApp Want Data Domain
By Om Malik
EMC Corp. announced yesterday its desire to buy Data Domain, a data backup company, for $30 a share, or roughly $1.8 billion in cash.
The real deal is for de-duplication and effective replacement of tape by drives (Cloud Storage?) as enterprise backup. Control the TBytes of backup with removal of old duplicated files. It's worth a lot of money . . .
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
As Web communication shrinks, so do links - Salon.com
As Web communication shrinks, so do links - Salon.com: "As Web communication shrinks, so do links
By RACHEL METZ Associated Press Writer
May 31st, 2009 | NEW YORK -- On the short-messaging service Twitter, space is at a premium: You've got 140 characters to make your point, and you probably don't want to waste half of it on a super-sized link to your latest YouTube obsession."
An interesting problem for the rapidly growing opportunity in URL shortners such as the original tinyURL and now Bit.ly. Brief communications tied to site interconnection are beginning to put stress on the original URL system which was a kluge to begin with although a brilliant one.
By RACHEL METZ Associated Press Writer
May 31st, 2009 | NEW YORK -- On the short-messaging service Twitter, space is at a premium: You've got 140 characters to make your point, and you probably don't want to waste half of it on a super-sized link to your latest YouTube obsession."
An interesting problem for the rapidly growing opportunity in URL shortners such as the original tinyURL and now Bit.ly. Brief communications tied to site interconnection are beginning to put stress on the original URL system which was a kluge to begin with although a brilliant one.
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