YouTube celebrates 7 years with new record figures

The platform of sharing and dissemination of videos on the internet, YouTube, celebrated Sunday its 7 years of existence and advance records figures.

Well Yes, it's been already 7 years videos YouTube hosting site has emerged. It was in May 2005 under the leadership of three former PayPal employees who simply wanted to share videos with their loved ones, indeed the first shared video on YouTube was one of the creators of the site who commented on his visit to the San Diego Zoo.

Then everything dissolves very quickly, the hearing took off quickly with 8 million videos viewed by day in December 2005 and 15 million in July 2006. In October 2006, the site is bought by Google for the astronomical sum of $ 1.65 billion and the site knows now considerable success is not disavowing.

To cite a few towering figures, YouTube attracts each month 800 million visitors to its pages representing 3 billion hours of video views, and every minute is not less than 72 hours of videos which are sent to the servers of the firm of Mountain View.

Of course, it is everything and anything, especially anything else, but at least there are for all tastes and all. Who has also never recovered from old cartoons or emissions generic completely forgotten, or a good old video clip well kitsch and rotten but who scored our childhood, hum?

Find below a video published on the official blog YouTube tracing seven years of significant events throughout the history of the California company.

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Record for the zoom: Olympus SP-810UZ reached the 36 x

Olympus is customary because: the nippon constructor just beat the record for the largest amplitude of a goal with the SP-810UZ bridge: 36 x for a 24-864 mm equivalent. Impressive figures for a device that can be classified in the category "Ultra-Zoom". The 14 megapixel CCD sensor offers an interesting opening of f/2.8 in wide-angle and f/5.6 in telephoto.

Side video on the other hand, it remains in 720 p due to the choice by the manufacturer of the TruePic III processor and not the last generation TruePic IV for the 1080p. It also has a screen 3 "230 000 points and a rechargeable battery via USB, a non-negligible detail for most backpackers who never separated from their laptop. SP-810US will be available in September at a price of 299 euros.

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New OCZ Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD achieves the Record

OCZ has defined a new 1 million 4 K write IOPS reference this week at the Computex.

Tuesday at the Computex, OCZ has alleged that he set a new benchmark for $ 4 K write IOPS 1 million and 1.5 million read IOPS with a server of single International equipped with a Z-Drive R4 88 3U Colfax.

Based on a Supermicro platform, this solution of specific server is considered the fastest on the market and this 7.2 storage TB of MLC. The PCIe-based SSD of the OCZ is a beast all by itself, packed with eight SF-2281 controllers in a RAID 0 configuration and mounted on a PCIe x 8 card. However, this particular demo used several Z - Drive R4 88 s to meet the IOPS folder.

"We have worked closely with OCZ to create a ready to deploy the solution with exceptional performance and reliability, all in an efficient footprint, compact and energy Server" said Gautam Shah, President and CEO of Colfax International. "Z - Drive PCIe SSDs to the OCZ add a great performance and we are thrilled to reach this significant reference of IOPS of write K 4, and this industry leading a total solution to our customers."

Alone, the Z - Drive R4 88 includes readings up to 2.9 GB/s and writing up to 2.7 GB/s. additional reports show that he would arrive in two flavors: the c series of capacitors of polymer for the protection of loss of power and less supply and r series which will be are equipped with the sudden loss of power protection and extra NAND set aside as a spare area.

"R4 Z-Drive enables data center customers to maximize the performance of the file size of the industry standard 4 K, and this achievement with Colfax International demonstrates the benefits of raw performance and reduction of the OCZ PCIe SSDs latency time able to provide over device multi-terabyte densities in a single 3U Server"said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology Group. "We are proud to enable our customers to provide servers and storage arrays that offer the highest performance, capacity maximum and available in most low-latency data centers today."

OCZ stated that server demoed during the show will be available for pre-order from Colfax International in several configurations built at the request and that he will be delivered in the coming weeks after the Computex event.

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