Category Archives: Information economy

MIT builds analog synapse chip

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Ray

Recently MIT announced a new brain chip, a breakthrough device that simulates a single brain synapse with an analog chip. We have discussed before the digital nueromorphic chip activity going on (see my IBM introducing their SyNAPSE chip and Electro-human … Continue reading →

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One day with HDS

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Ray

Attended #HDSday yesterday in San Jose.  Listened to what seemed like the majority of the executive team. The festivities were MCed by Asim Zaheer, VP Corp and Product Marketing, a long time friend and employee, that came to HDS with the acquisition … Continue reading →

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Smart thermostats make for smarter grids

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Ray

We have been discussing off and on how smart power meters (see Smart metering data storage appetite) and intelligent sensors (see the Sensor cloud comes home) such as smart thermostats generate copious amounts of data.  Sensors and meters such as these … Continue reading →

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Is cloud a leapfrog technology?

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Ray

Read an article today about Safaricom creating a domestic cloud service offering outside Nairobi in Kenya (see Chasing the African Cloud). But this got me to thinking that cloud services may be just like mobile phones in that developing countries … Continue reading →

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Server virtualization vs. storage virtualization

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Ray

One can only be perplexed by the seemingly overwelming adoption of server virtualization and contrast that with the ho-hum, almost underwelming adoption of storage virtualization.  Why is there this significant a difference? I think the problem is partly due to … Continue reading →

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The sensor cloud comes home

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Ray

We thought the advent of smart power meters would be the killer app for building the sensor cloud in the home.  But, this week Honeywell announced a new smart thermostat that attaches to the Internet and uses Opower’s cloud service … Continue reading →

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Disk capacity growing out-of-sight

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Ray

Last week, Hitachi Global Storage Division(acquired by Western Digital, closing in 4Q2011) and Seagate announced some higher capacity disk drives for desk top applications over the past week. Most of us in the industry have become somewhat jaded with respect … Continue reading →

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IBM’s 120PB storage system

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Ray

Talk about big data, Technology Review reported this week that IBM is building a 120PB storage system for some unnamed customer.  Details are sketchy and I cannot seem to find any announcement of this on IBM.com. Hardware It appears that … Continue reading →

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