The Storage Alchemist talks about his findings from Strata 2013. Interesting that there wasn't much talk about infrastructure and infrastructure and data management are going to play a key role in the success and viability of Big Data. Also, the latest talk on the town around Big Data is Data Warfare - how do I spoof Big Data that help the bad guys drive the decision making process.

One of my favorite shows is Criminal Minds. I think most people that are like me, like those sorts of crime shows. However, I like Criminal Minds, and being in the data business, I like how Penelope Garcia has access to a TON of data that helps her help her team to solve crimes. (And yes, I know it is a TV show.) I am curious to know what the infrastructure looks like… Read more »

As a part of being a storage evangelist, I spend a lot of time educating sales as well as customers on the merits of our capabilities and technologies. Every since IBM acquired TMS I have been hearing from our sales reps that it can be difficult to compete as others in the industry have capabilities in their flash solutions such as data deduplication.

I spend quite a bit of time educating folks that deduplication… Read more »

Randy Arseneau (@truthinstorage) and I (@skenniston) are starting a new Podcast - Storage Alchemist. Here is an excerpt from our first episode - as we are playing around with how this is going to work.

What had started out as a joke to a bunch of Californians has turned into “The Official Petition to Establish Hella as the SI Prefix for 10^27”. Today we have the Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte, Petabyte, Exabyte, Zettabyte and Yottabyte. Most would think that this would be enough to last us for a while, but apparently, it isn’t.

In 2009 we had accumulated about 1ZB of data. Just one year… Read more »