Monthly Archives: January 2013

Molecular Memory Breaks New Ground in MIT Research Lab

Imagine storing the center of your business, your data, in molecules. IT providers globally are taking notice of a new and promising technology called molecular memory. The technology has got the trappings of science fiction, but it’s real and it could mean that data center facilities could be storing as much as 1000TB of data within a square inch of space, maximizing critical real estate within their facilities while cutting down on energy costs.

The technology is exciting, especially when you consider that the discovery of molecular memory will only accelerate the search for more, improved alternatives to today’s data storage solutions. Chemists at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) first developed the molecule that was used in the research, which was performed in an MIT lab.

Molecule Memory Defined

The technique works by manipulating the magnetic state of the unique molecule. Every molecule represents a binary 1 or 0 according to its magnetic state. The result is store more data in a limited amount of space.

How It’s Done

With the recent breakthrough in the technology, researchers have made inroads in specific manufacturing phases that will cut down on some of the cost of manufacturing as well as produce a product that will be kept cool more easily. This last part will be music in the ears of IT personnel who are driven to find the effective ways to control the temperature in their data center facilities.

What Now?

The team of researchers at MIT was led by Jagadeesh Moodera, who anticipates that the final version of the “molecular memory” device will be placed on shelves within the next decade. It is hoped that these systems will eventually replace traditional SSD storage devices across the board and will dramatically minimize energy usage and waste.

As data center operators across the globe work to cut costs and boost performance, this technology is both timely and invaluable. Moodera hopes that the findings will generate interest in developing more memory solutions.

Source: http://www.cio.com/article/727287/New_Molecules_Could_Bring_Super_dense_Solid_state_Hard_Disk_Alternatives

Add Virtual Hosts To Apache

This is a way to run many web sites with many different DNS’s with one computer one IP address and one port. This video will show you how to setup virtual server DNS based for apache. So if your little sister wanted a web server all you have to do is make a virtual host and she can have her own DNS name and not have to go thru your files to get to it. Two seeming separate web sites on the same server. Codes to paste into config file sites.google.com Want to download this video and all the others? go to sites.google.com and get the latest links to download.

Virtual Web Hosting with Apache on Windows Part 1

This video demonstrates how to set up virtual hosting with Apache web server on Windows. Virtual Hosting makes it so Apache will respond to domain name requests rather than the default xxxx:y format so you can use one physical server and one instance of Apache to host multiple web sites.