The 1 Terabyte CD

Ever since the HAL 9000 was decommissioned by pulling out its clear plastic storage modules in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey every storage geek has been jonesing for 3D storage. Holographic, multi-layer, whatever. I want capacity and I want it now!...

The coming boom in SSD’s

Solid state disks have been around for decades and failed to make the IT mainstream. Why is that about to change? I did a stint of SSD marketing at DEC in the early 90’s. Then, as now, SSDs offered low I/O latency and high IOPS capacity at an astronomical $/GB....

Open source in lean IT

No, not another post about green IT Mention green to most CFO’s and they’ll assume you’re talking about the color of money. Which is exactly the language of a Wall Street Journal article (subscription required I fear) on Sir Richard Branson’s...