More From Storage Visions

By Bayle Emlein

At the Storage Visions 2015 Conference, DataDirect Networks' Shreyek Shah on the topic: 'Is Big Data "Enough" Data' noted that our basic problem has become how we store data. The current model involves expensive storage for data that on average is infrequently accessed. Most data is rarely used, less than a third is frequently used, but all is treated the same with regard to storage. The linear model of current data storage does not do a good job of support geo-dispersed simultaneous work sharing.
  
Josef Marc of Archimedia Technology addressed the topic "It's a Retrieval Problem, Part 2" during Storage Visions 2015 Conference. He noted that for the end-user (most of us most of the time) the real issue is retrieval, not the how or where of storage. I think Google Docs was a passing example of why online is better. Sorry. Once Josef said that he thinks that Google Docs is the greatest advance since random access memory, I lost my focus. This isn't the forum to discuss all the ways GD falls short for me; I do it, like Income Tax, because of the consequences of not.