Tag Archives: internet

Fat pipes beget fat storage

Just as processing power increases created the PC Era in the 20th Century, broadband increases are creating this century’s Network Era.  The

GigaOm points to five game-changing applications enabled by [....]

Storage is the most important technology of the next 10 years

Storage will make the biggest impact of any technology in the 2010’s

Think I’m crazy?  Think again.

Information and energy drive today’s world.  The internet has re-invented life and work for the digitally enabled [....]

Cheap storage built the internet

Proof point: the $400 million exabyte data center

Robin Harris calculated the cost of a 1.8 exabyte datacenter to be $400 million.  That’s assuming the barest bones [....]

China now has the most internet users

China’s 253 million users surpass the United State’s 223 million 

China’s now the largest market for the web.  But the most significant part of The Channel Wire’s post is that China is [....]

How sushi is like internet storage

Internet storage conveys raw and tasty digital content to the masses

I had an absolutely fabulous lunch for less than $10 in Tokyo.  I love sushi, and the cheapest raw fish [....]

Chock full o’ bytes

The Internet infrastructure is incredibly storage dense, and will become even more so

Historically, “infractructures” have been a means to get from here to there: railways, waterways, [....]