Gigabyte data storage - what next for lasers?

What next for Semantic Blogging?

Semantic Blogging is the use of rich metadata to transform blogs from simple online diaries to full participants in an information sharing ecosystem. Originally the semantic blogging vision centred around informal decentralized knowledge management, but recent developments in social network analysis, microformats, semantic desktop applications and wikis have challenged, enriched and extend...

HashCache: Cache Storage for the Next Billion

We present HashCache, a configurable cache storage engine designed to meet the needs of cache storage in the developing world. With the advent of cheap commodity laptops geared for mass deployments, developing regions are poised to become major users of the Internet, and given the high cost of bandwidth in these parts of the world, they stand to gain significantly from network caching. However,...

dsync: Efficient Block-wise Synchronization of Multi-Gigabyte Binary Data

Backing up important data is an essential task for system administrators to protect against all kinds of failures. However, traditional tools like rsync exhibit poor performance in the face of today’s typical data sizes of hundreds of gigabytes. We address the problem of efficient, periodic, multi-gigabyte state synchronization. In contrast to approaches like rsync which determine changes after...

Medicaid Managed Care Encounter Data: What, Why, and Where Next?

Managed care now serves 23 percent of the Medicaid population. With the shift to capitation, the fee-for-service (FFS) billing mechanism that has generated much of the administrative data used in policy planning and research no longer exists. This article provides an overview of the types of encounter data currently being required for plans and the problems and issues with providing and analyzi...

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