All data operates under a set of laws but unstructured data suffers from these tendencies more than most of all. Although, information technology has helped us to create and manage data easier, it hasn’t done much to minimize the problems these laws produce. As such, I introduce here my 5 laws of unstructured data in [...]

My recent post on an exabyte-a-day generated a comment that got me thinking. What we need in the world today is a universal deduped archive. Such an archive would be a repository for all information generated by the world, nation, state, etc. and would automatically deduplicate the data and back it up. Such an archive [...]

At HPTechDay this week Jim Pownell, office of CTO, HP StorageWorks Division, reported on an IDC study that said this year the world is creating about an Exabyte of data each day.  An Exabyte (XB) is 10**18 bytes or 1000 PB of data.  Seems a bit high from my perspective. Data creation by individuals The [...]