Data Unknown is an attempt to speak to people about data the way we speak to people about other important things in our lives.
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The Competitive Business Process
This post defines the Competitive Business Process we all face today when it comes to our knowledge workers, data and technology.
The Storage Alchemist Gets a Facelift
The Storage Alchemist has now a much simpler, cleaner look and feel thanks to my friends at Business Blender
Facebook Storage Infrastructure w/o FB IT Costs
In 2012 I did a blog post on Facebook going public. The premise of the piece wasn’t about the fad that surrounds social media or that a social media company was going public, it was that the group of IT practitioners that manage Facebook’s storage infrastructure had deployed something pretty amazing.
In 2009 I quoted a few simple stats:
Facebook had about 1 billion users - remember, each user has a mailbox for messagesUsers were… Read more »Innovation and Some Unfair Statements
This past week I read an article in Owler that called out some statements made by Sun co-founder Vinod Khosla.
In the article Vinod discusses innovation as well as the EMC / Dell acquisition. Vinod said that he hasn't see Dell, EMC or IBM innovate in the last 30 years. I take a bit of exception to that. I have worked for both EMC and IBM and… Read more »