by Stephanie McLoughlin

Test Center Tracker: Storage nuts and bolts, and video from TED

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Apr 20, 20071 min

Storage roundup: It's a Very Special Storage Friday in the columnists' corner. Mario Apicella ponders 10 Gig switch technology that could lead to a real 100 Gigabit Ethernet fabric (not to mention more iSCSI and FCoE talk on the Storage Network blog). And Oliver Rist wonders if virtualization will be the key to increasing iSCSI adoption among SMBs (Microsoft's Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 doesn't ign

Storage roundup: It’s a Very Special Storage Friday in the columnists’ corner. Mario Apicella ponders 10 Gig switch technology that could lead to a real 100 Gigabit Ethernet fabric (not to mention more iSCSI and FCoE talk on the Storage Network blog). And Oliver Rist wonders if virtualization will be the key to increasing iSCSI adoption among SMBs (Microsoft’s Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 doesn’t ignore iSCSI, for one).

Who goes there?: Want to see if a site is running in IE7 Protected Mode on Vista? Martin Heller has the code you need, and the background on the detective work he did to find it.

Friday video break: This year, the TED folks posted a large number of videos (dubbed TED Talks) from their yearly share-and-share-alike conference in Monterey, Calif. Check out Jeff Han demoing a multi-touch, hi-res, full-screen touchscreen – and tell your mouse that its days may be numbered.

Want to see more from TED? They’ve got 99 videos of everything from a performance by Pilobus dancers to James Watson describing how he discovered DNA and Jane Goodall on the difference between humans and apes to Golan Levin’s quest to see software as art.