When Your Storage Array is a Cathedral
by David Merrill on January 6, 2012
Happy New Year to all.
I came across this news article from Sweden, where web and data sharing has been recognized as an official state religion.
So, some quick thoughts come to mind:
- Can your storage investment now be considered a charitable tax-exempt contribution?
- Do you need to purchase some priestly robes for your storage administrator?
- Will we only have to limit our time and attention to data management for an hour only on Sundays?
- How will governments’ IT departments now effectively separate church and state?
- Will this new religion require some type of sacrifice? (that is a loaded one…)
- Will the data center now require gold leafing and vaulted ceilings?
- Will a religious connotation change (raise) your perception of database or storage sales people?
- Can you now use the freedom of religion argument to increase your mailbox quota?
- Does that 20-year-old 9-track tape now become a sacred religious relic?
- Will you have to canonize your storage technical architecture?
Feel free to add to this list.
I do not condone this definition of religion, but it may put a new light on the value and importance of data and information.
