Why ‘big data’ is here to stay — Data-driven Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Wednesday, April 25th 2012

Analyst Blogs

Eight years ago, a friend and I were researching a book we would later call "Inescapable Data - Harnessing the Power of Convergence." We were after an understanding of what kinds of new information one could produce by blending data...

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Storage Area Networks Need Not Apply – Data Driven Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Friday, April 1st 2011

Analyst Blogs

Last week I attended the GigaOM Structure Big Data conference in New York City. Although my resume says I'm a storage analyst of long standing, this was not a storage conference. However, my e-mail inbox reminds me daily that storage...

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What IBM’s Watson Says to Storage Systems Developers, Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Tuesday, February 15th 2011

Analyst Blogs

IBM's Watson debuted for a national prime time TV audience last night on CBS' Jeopardy. Well, to be accurate, his avatar glowed behind his center-stage podium. He did however have a real button to push when he was ready to...

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Shared Storage in a Shared Nothing Environment — Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Wednesday, February 9th 2011

Analyst Blogs

The computing industry is seeing dramatic growth in the use of "shared nothing" database architectures where each node functions independently of one another and is self-sufficient (Hadoop Distributed File System for example). For the sake of performance, contention among nodes...

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