by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 18, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech
The busy storage elves at IBM’s Almaden Research Center have crammed almost 7 billion bits — about 800 megabytes — onto a square inch of test tape, a 15x improvement over today’s shipping products. The PR goes on to say: The demonstration shows...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 17, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
GFS: Fundamental Paradigm Shift or One-off Oddity? As regular readers know, I believe that the current model of enterprise storage is badly broken. When I see something that blows that model away I like to learn more. In particular, I assess the marketability of the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 16, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
[W]hat happens when we can make anything ten times better for one hundredth the cost? How will that affect our society? Eric Drexler, as quoted by Tom Foremski in Silicon Valley Watcher. Eric Drexler, one of the fathers of nanotechnology, gets to think really big...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 11, 2006 | Future Tech |
From the Wall Street Journal comes this comment about the impact of cheap digital storage on the physical world. The Post-Stuff World: We invented records, books, newspapers and cash to hold those “idea” nouns — music, writing, news and value —...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Over at HDS, the always thoughtful Hu Yoshida, discusses a recent CIO roundtable he attended. I’ve spent years of close listening to customers to understand the nature of their communication. Despite the “high-tech” aura of their work, I’ve...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 9, 2006 | Future Tech |
As much as I hope Sun’s Project Honeycomb will be a success, there doesn’t appear to be a single element of it that is a first. Like most high-tech products it picks from threads of innovation that have sometimes been hanging around for decades. So when...
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