by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 12, 2006 | Future Tech
Marshall McLuhan’s aphorism, “the medium is the message,” is just as true, and misunderstood, today as it was 40 years ago. Yet the onslaught of “new media,” “social media” and “interactive media” makes the advent...
by Robin Harris | Monday, December 11, 2006 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The storage world is abuzz this morning over a new paper at this years International Electron Device Meeting talking about recent improvements in phase-change memory. The underlying technology is cool: a bit of germanium-antimony (GeSb) alloy which can be rapidly...
by Robin Harris | Friday, December 8, 2006 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
The redoubtable Kevin Closson has a post entitled “Introducing the “Unstructured Data Administratorâ€. In it he refers to a study put out by the Independent Oracle Users Group called “Managing the Storage Equation: The Converging Roles of Data and...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, December 7, 2006 | Clusters, Enterprise, Future Tech |
So I sent a note off to the nice folks at HP who wrote this paper, alerting them to their elevation to storage rock stars, and one of them wrote me back to alert me to a newer version of the paper. The newer version is less sprightly yet has a lot more information, so...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, December 6, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
One of the holy books of the Mammon-worshipping Church of the MBA is Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. One of the things I like about Smith is his intellectual ju-jitsu on the issue of the essential amorality of markets. Sure, Smith says, the people buying and...
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