A place for my thoughts…
Do your friends and family glaze over when you explain to them what you do? Ever find yourself falling asleep at an IT conference? Not anymore with your very own Cloud Bingo card. If terms used to describe the cloud were a drinking game I don’t think I’d make it through an IT conference sober. So how did we get[…]
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When it comes to the environment then all claims must be supported by evidence. You wouldn’t decide if someone was innocent or guilty without evidence, you wouldn’t believe claims about what a product or service you were thinking of buying could do without evidence. I’ve been actively working on the topic of the environment and sustainability for a couple of[…]
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Housing projects may have to be put on hold in west London until 2035 as the electricity grid has run out of capacity. How did this happen and where has all the capacity gone? Of course, there are many reasons, but new data centres are a big part of the problem. Globally the total power usage of data centres is[…]
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Okay I know that’s a bit of an oxymoron, maybe it’s time for a name change? Over the last 6 – 12 months we’ve been adding more and more capabilities into Cloud Manager for companies that would like to use it to manage their on-premises NetApp systems, yes that’s right, to manage your on-premises systems, so why would you want[…]
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It’s been my ongoing home automation process that really got me thinking about the parallels between this and Hybrid / Multicloud computing, which I think we can all generally accept is the future for IT. I know you’re probably thinking ‘that seems like a bit of a stretch’ but bear with me. For my home automation I’ve chosen my control[…]
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Sometimes it takes a major event to force a change. Without such an event to make us challenge ourselves hard about something, we often just carry on doing what we’ve always done the way we’ve always done it. That has definitely been the situation with our workplaces and travel. I’m all for people having real human contact as I think[…]
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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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