by Robin Harris | Friday, September 8, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Google’s Bigtable is essentially a massive, distributed 3-D spreadsheet. It doesn’t do SQL, there is limited support for atomic transactions, nor does it support the full relational database model. In short, in these and other areas, the Google team made...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 5, 2006 | Enterprise |
EMC has been test driving their Next Big Marketing Initiative for some months. Expect them to start pounding the drums for Intelligent Information Management this month. It appears that IIM, the concept, will be embodied in software products taking pieces from several...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 31, 2006 | Enterprise, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Over at InfoWorld, Tom Yager has posted a fascinating article titled Linux will get buried. It’s Not About Apple He proposes that Apple’s Unix revenue will overtake commercial Linux factory-install revenue by mid-2008. Which seems reasonable: Apple sales...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 30, 2006 | Enterprise |
Over at DrunkenData John William Toigo comments on my Computerworld post on the death throes of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM). I wish I could say he tore me a new one – controversy is good for readership – but since we are fundamentally in...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 28, 2006 | Enterprise |
The Wall Street Journal (and everyone else) is reporting (subscription required) Google Inc. is venturing deeper into the business and education market by bundling a variety of existing services including email and scheduling offerings that compete with software from...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 24, 2006 | Enterprise, SAN, FC |
The good people at Computer Economics have recently published an article entitled Storage Management Disciplines are Declining. Which is the best thing I’ve heard all week. Unless your job title includes the words “Storage Manager”. Unused Capacity:...
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