Archive | September, 2008
Sea Change – Google’s latest scheme makes waves

Sea Change – Google’s latest scheme makes waves

by Mike Davis on September 16, 2008 in Featured, Storage

This week Matt O’Hern called out my company Ocarina Networks on the Marketing Shift blog as an example of what’s being done to manage the upwardly spiraling load of online data. Google’s latest data storage scheme–placing data centers on barges and creating an offshore “waterworld” of data–may seem bizarre to some, but this move on [...]

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IBM Suddenly Notices “Mountainous Piles” of Data

IBM Suddenly Notices “Mountainous Piles” of Data

by Mike Davis on September 10, 2008 in Storage

Seems like it’s hitting everyone at once: there is a whole heck of a lot of data out there, and all of it must be stored. According to ZDNet’s recent coverage of IBM’s new storage strategy: “IBM estimates that the average individual’s ‘information footprint’ –the amount of data connected to a person–will grow to more than 16 [...]

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