A place for my thoughts…
By 2030 if data continues to grow at the current rate, then we are likely to exceed 1 Yottabyte of data created in a single year. (For reference, a Yottabyte is approximately 1,000 zettabytes, a trillion terabytes or a million trillion megabytes). But here’s why this really concerns me: Research shows that 68% or more of this vast amount of[…]
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I’m going way off what I would normally blog about for this one, but this has absolutely fascinated me. ‘Time Crystals’ were theorized back in 2012 and identified in 2016. They’ve really hit the news in the last few days as Scientists believe they have used Google’s Quantum computer to ‘create’ a Time Crystal. But what is a Time Crystal[…]
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‘The original Human Genome Project required 13 years of work and cost more than $3 billion, now we can sequence the Genome overnight’ I’m often looking for interesting examples of progress, not just in IT but more generally and this one really struck me. The COVID genome was sequenced early as the first cases were cropping up in Wuhan, China[…]
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Imagine having an application that can understand all of the data that you’re storing, that can do this for ANY unstructured data across any vendor, that can scan any S3 compatible source, that can scan your OneDrive accounts, that can scan the structured data behind many of the major applications that you use today and can do this across Azure,[…]
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For us it was 73%, no that is not a typo. When we introduced Spot into our engineering / development environment 73% was the amount we reduced our spend on cloud compute by and there was no impact to our developers and no reduction in application availability. How much do you think you are spending on cloud compute that you[…]
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Maybe you’ve not really thought about this before, but a significant portion of the content you see when you’re online is curated by filter bubbles, more specifically your filter bubbles, and lockdown means that more and more of what we watch and read is filtered by them. Filter Bubble: a situation in which an internet user encounters only information and[…]
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I read a competitors blog recently, I’m not going to post a link to it but I’m sure you could find it once you’ve viewed this and therefore have a gist as to what it was all about. A few things really jumped out at me as I read it though The person that wrote it is ex NetApp and[…]
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In order to explain what I mean by this let’s take a look back in order to look forward. If we consider the evolution of architectures… To increase efficiencies and simplify management we started by consolidating multiple workloads onto fewer platforms. With virtualization we were able to take this further, a new level of cost reduction and utilization and more control passed[…]
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I’ve finally done something that I didn’t think I would, I’m now using the word Evangelist as part of my job title. My full title going forward will be ‘Chief Technology Evangelist’ Now I’m not particularly hung up on job titles but the simple reality is that they do set an expectation as to what people can expect to hear[…]
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After 15 years working for NetApp I decided I wanted to write a book on my experiences during this time, it’s a bit of a ‘history of NetApp’ and the changing industry. I hope you enjoy it!
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