How would you like to put 100 DVDs on one CD? This week the folks at G.E. announced their latest breakthrough in Holographic Storage on Brian Lawrence‘s blog: it’s about ” threshold recording behavior” – the team at GE has apparently figured out how to improve performance by 100x to 200x over past efforts. For
Monthly Archives for April 2009
21 Apr 2009
With the Sun acquisition, Larry “what’s a cloud?” Ellison has once again changed the game. Here are a few key points to think about: 1) Oracle becomes the end-to-end IT enabler – from apps to disks; that’s the party line. 2) Oracle begins the journey to the Cloud, and begins to develop the end-to-end Enterprise
21 Apr 2009
The last few days have seen a lot of discussion over the McKinsey & Company report: Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing. McKinsey said the cost of the Cloud is high when compared to a large enterprises ability to implement similar services in house. They may, currently, be correct, but over time, this will likely
I’ve also been invited to present at Dealmaker Media’s Under the Radar (UTR) conference on April 24 in Mountain View, CA. In this case I’ll be talking about what makes Mezeo unique: the deployable Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform that is purpose built for the IT service provider market. Register here >>
16 Apr 2009
I’ll be doing a presentation at Cloud Slam ’09 titled: “The Most Interesting Sub-plot in Cloud Computing is Cloud Storage” Here’s what I’ll be talking about: While much of the collective discussion has focused on cloud computing and trying to define it, cloud storage has not so quietly gone from concept to tangible business with