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Why EMC is doing Project Lightening and Thunder
Although technically Project Lightening and Thunder represent some interesting offshoots of EMC software, hardware and system prowess, I wonder why they would decide to go after this particular market space. There are plenty of alternative offerings in the PCIe NAND … Continue reading
Posted in Data efficiency, Distributed computing, Market dynamics, Scenario planning, SSD storage, Storage performance, Strategic Inflection Points, Strategic planning, System effectiveness, Visionary leadershp
Tagged commoditization of storage performance, Commodity hardware, EMC, EMC Project Lightening, EMC Project Thunder, external shared memory, Linux, NAND, SSD, VMware, Windows
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How has IBM research changed?
What does Watson, Neuromorphic chips and race track memory have in common. They have all emerged out of IBM research labs. I have been wondering for some time now how it is that a company known for it’s cutting edge … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate growth, Data science, Executive leadership, Information economy, R&D measures, SSD storage, Strategic Inflection Points, Strategic planning, Strategy, Visionary leadershp
Tagged IBM Research, IBM Smarter Computing Forum, Neuromorphic chips, Project management, racetrack memory, Research management, Watson
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Is cloud a leapfrog technology?
Read an article today about Safaricom creating a domestic cloud service offering outside Nairobi in Kenya (see Chasing the African Cloud). But this got me to thinking that cloud services may be just like mobile phones in that developing countries … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud services, Cloud storage, Distributed computing, Information economy, Strategic Inflection Points, Visionary leadershp
Tagged Africa, CCID consulting, China cloud focus, Cloud computing, Cloud services, Cloud Storage, developing countries, land lines, leapfrog technologies, mobile phones, SAAS, WIMAX
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Server virtualization vs. storage virtualization
One can only be perplexed by the seemingly overwelming adoption of server virtualization and contrast that with the ho-hum, almost underwelming adoption of storage virtualization. Why is there this significant a difference? I think the problem is partly due to … Continue reading
Posted in Block Storage, Cloud storage, Disk storage, File Storage, Information economy, Market dynamics, Server virtualization, SSD storage, Storage architecture, storage economics, Storage performance, Strategic Inflection Points, Strategic planning, System effectiveness, Visionary leadershp
Tagged performance utilization, processor utilization, storage virtualization adoption rate
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Our long romance with Apple technology
We all heard last night of the passing of Steve Jobs. But rather than going over his life I would like to here discuss some of the Apple products I have used over my life and how they affected … Continue reading
Posted in System effectiveness, System quality, Visionary leadershp
Tagged Apple, Apple Mac, Fat Mac, iMac, iPad, iPhone, Lisa, Steve Jobs
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Big data and eMedicine combine to improve healthcare
We have talked before ePathology and data growth, but Technology Review recently reported that researchers at Stanford University have used Electronic Medical Records (EMR) from multiple medical institutions to identify a new harmful drug interaction. Apparently, they found that when patients … Continue reading
IBM research introduces SyNAPSE chip
IBM with the help of a Columbia, Cornell, University of Wisconsin (Madison) and University of California creates the first generation of neuromorphic chips (press release and video) which mimics the human brain’s computational architecture implemented via silicon. The chip is a … Continue reading
M-Disc provides a 1000 year archivable DVD
I heard about this last week but saw another notice today. Millenniata has made what they believe to be a DVD which has a 1000 year archive life they call the M-Disc . I have written before about the lack … Continue reading