The Storage Architect

Cloud Computing: Trawling the Toxic Wastedump

A quick Tweet with Chris Mellor just reminded me of something I touched on a few months ago but always meant to write about in more detail. It’s a semi-serious analogy (it is Friday after all) but there’s a hint of the possible about it, so here goes. We’re all creating too much...

Taking out the trash

In a recent post, Hu Yoshida refrences an IDC presentation discussing the rate of growth of structured versus unstructured data. It seems that we can expect unstructured data to grow at a rate of some 63.7% annually. I wonder what actual percentage of this data represents useful information? Personally...