by Robin Harris | Thursday, March 2, 2017 | Backup, Enterprise, Information Management |
Today is the last day of FAST 17. Yesterday a couple of hours were devoted to Work-in-Progress (WIP) reports. WIP reports are kept to 4 minutes and a few slides. One in particular caught my eye. In On Fault Resilience of File System Checkers, Om Rameshwar Gatla and...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 13, 2016 | Future Tech, Information Management, Security & Public Policy |
Artificial Intelligence has achieved breakthroughs that directly affect documentary and investigative reporting, or any video where participants need anonymity. Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence (AI), standard methods of cloaking identities through...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, September 8, 2016 | Future Tech, Information Management, IoT, Security & Public Policy |
Big data will overwhelm artisanal science. That’s what I conclude from a recent paper that lays out the stark statistics: Science is a growing system, exhibiting 4% annual growth in publications and 1.8% annual growth in the number of references per publication....
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 26, 2016 | Information Management, Off-Topic, Security & Public Policy |
Over on ZDNet I’ve been doing a series looking at the issues we face incorporating Big Data into our digital civilization (see When Big Data is bad data, Lying scientists and the lying lies they tell, and Humans are the weak link in Big Data. I’m not done...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 2, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Information Management, Object storage, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Goodbye, old bottleneck StorageMojo has often asked buyers to focus on latency rather than IOPS thanks to SSDs making IOPS cheap and plentiful. This naturally leads to a focus on I/O stack latency, which multiple vendors are attacking. But what are the implications of...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 15, 2016 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Information Management, IoT, Management |
IBM researchers are proposing – and demoing – an intelligent storage system that works something like your brain. It’s based on the idea that it’s easier to remember important, like a sunset over the Grand Canyon, than the last time you waited...
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