Big data SMAQ-down
The term "big data," is getting thrown around a lot these days, and in certain circles it is threatening to overtake "cloud" as the most overused and misused term in IT. Interestingly, some of the...
View ArticleStorage is a hard problem with a soft(ware) solution
My wife and I are both dog people, but we have mixed views regarding another contentious issue: hardware versus software.
View ArticleAsteroids, nuclear war and data center outages: Surviving big disasters by...
Imagine that it's the height of the Cold War, and you are trying to design an approach to command, control, and communications that can survive a full-scale nuclear attack.One approach is to build a...
View ArticleThe beauty of little boxes, and their role in the future of storage
If you're into 1960's songs about middle class conformity, you may not have a positive association with lots of interchangeable "little boxes." In storage, however, those little boxes are not only...
View ArticleWhy Thomas Jefferson could predict the next big thing in storage
In 1814, Thomas Jefferson donated the contents of his vast personal library of books and correspondence to form the foundation of the Library of Congress. Some 200 years later, that library is one of...
View ArticleTaxis, Zipcars and cloud storage
As a kid, when I was being carpooled to soccer practice, I got into a heated discussion with my friends regarding the kind of car we would be driving as adults when we took our kids to soccer practice....
View ArticleClouds, neurosis and Joni Mitchell
There's an old saying that the difference between neurosis and psychosis is that neurotics build castles in the clouds and psychotics move in. What then does that say about those of us who try to...
View Article"Marathon Man" and cloud storage: Is it safe?
Anyone who has seen the 1976 film Marathon Man, will no doubt recall the cringe-inducing scene where a sadistic Nazi dentist (played by Laurence Olivier) tortures the protagonist (Dustin Hoffman) by...
View ArticleIts a floor wax and a dessert topping: Hybrid cloud storage
In a classic Saturday Night Live parody commercial Gilda Radner and Dan Aykroyd play a couple having an argument over whether New Shimmer is a floor wax or a dessert topping.
View ArticleDan Quayle, anti-ferromagnetic bits and the future of storage: Embracing the...
In a previous post, I invoked Thomas Jefferson in predicting the future of storage. As I prepare to conclude and summarize this series of Computerworld posts, I'd like to invoke another,...
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