Data Resilience SpectrumCast - 1026
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 »The Hellabyte & the Storage Efficiency Evangelist
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 »
Big Data is OUT, Real-time Data is IN
Okay, the time has come to retire “Big Data”. There was a great post in TechCrunch at the begining of the year, talking about "Why We Need to Kill Big Data", as well as a good tweet by Dr. Wells Martin about Big Data. First, the industry is ready for something new and “Big Data” is 1) Yesterday’s news, 2) Doesn’t really describe what consumers want… Read more »
Datageddon
It is that time of the year when predictions are big. We have seen them all. Now, I’m not going to get into all the details of why folks believe the world “will end” on 12/21/2012. To me, the basics come from, more or less, to some ideas that the Maya calendar ends and so hence then should the world. However, there is no hard, evidence that 12/21/12 has much meaning in the Maya calendar… Read more »