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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Kathe5rine Rosman, The Most Awkward Meeting; New Elevators Sort
Employees, Foiling Manners And Face Time. Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052
748703509104576331044032063796.html
Quote:
"Elevators now route employees, sometimes according to rank. They can help
corporations keep track of who is in the office and who isn't. They can be
programmed so that a germophobe can simply wave an ID card in front of a
reader and be shuttled to the proper floor without actually touching a
button. They can redirect an unsuspecting employee to a different floor at
the request of the boss.
"Behind the changes is an increasingly common dispatch system that the two
companies that dominate the industry, Otis Elevator Co. and smaller rival
Schindler Elevator Corp. have installed in about 200 mid-to-high-rise
buildings around the country. Employees select their floor on a keypad in
the lobby and are sent to board a specific elevator. The dispatch systems
result in fewer people per car and fewer stops, and can be configured to
suit a company's particular needs.
"The centralized dispatch systems—which Schindler calls Destination
Dispatch and Otis calls Compass Destination Management System—represent the
most fundamental upgrade in commercial elevator travel since the late 1950s
when automation began to replace manual elevators operated by men in brass-
button uniforms.
My comment: There is no need to read the rest, except the chart "By the
Numbers."
(2) Scott Kirsner, One firm’s old data is another’s Next Big Thing. Boston
Globe, May 15, 2011.
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles
/2011/05/15/two_firms_capitalize_on_storage_boom/
Quote:
"the latest trend in the data storage world: saving copies of corporate data
onto what are called “disk-based back-up appliances’’ instead of on
magnetic tape, which has been the workhorse storage medium since the dawn of
the information age.
"Instead of backing up every file on every laptop, desktop, and Web server
that a company owns, they’ve created “deduplication’’ software that
hunts for the files that have changed since it last saved a copy, and backs
up only those (or even just chunks of the file that have been altered, like
a single cell in a spreadsheet). If everyone in your 5,000-employee company
receives the same e-mail with the same 10-megabyte video of the CEO giving a
progress report, the system just keeps one copy of the video, rather than 5
,000.
My comment:
(a) EMC Corporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMC_Corporation
(founded in 1979; The company’s name, EMC, stands for the initials of the
founders [Richard Egan and Roger Marino, both of whom graduated from
Northeastern University at Boston], and an unknown third individual who has
remained nameless)
(b) For years, EMC has been a leader in sata storage. I do not know why no
competitor has dethroned it. |
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