As much as we wish this was some type of anti-gravity bouncy castle, NASA's current experiments with inflatable structures are intended for slightly less entertaining implementation on the moon, where crews will use them as outposts for research, testing, storage, and living.

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The SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative is working on workload testing and identifying what applications and use cases can most benefit from solid state storage.

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CIOs remain in charge of physical infrastructure, development, testing, disaster recovery, storage, compliance, risk and security.

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The SSD storage device-level products utilizing said ASIC architecture are expected to be ready for market testing by the first half of 2012.

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TeraGrid, which is already the world's largest open computer, storage and networking system (exceeded only by the U.S. government's weapons-testing labs, which is "closed, " or isolated inside one institution), uses 16 different computer platforms and runs seven different operating systems.

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We worked with Lab49 on a back-testing strategy using MapReduce and found that if you can avoid moving data to servers or into storage you get much better performance.

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