Archive for January, 2012
From ASIC to Microprocessor and Back Again
Posted in IT Transformation, Tech Talk on January 26th, 2012 2 Comments »
Other than being an allusion to J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, there is real meaning in the title of this post, which I’ll get to towards the end. What I want to start with is a look back into the past and talk about, of all things, math co-processors.
From NAS Virtualization to NAS Feature
Posted in Customer Focus, Tech Talk, Virtualization on January 18th, 2012 No Comments »
Per my previous post, I wanted to provide more concrete examples from the storage world related to the sedimentary hypothesis.
The Sedimentary Hypothesis of Technology
Posted in IT Transformation, Tech Talk on January 9th, 2012 1 Comment »
I’ve mentioned the sedimentary hypothesis of technology in a few tweets already, and now I wanted to take the time to explain this concept in more detail. Before I get into explaining the hypothesis, let me provide a warm-up in the form of a definition of the process for forming organic sedimentary rock.
But Which Big Data Again?
Posted in Big Data, IT Transformation, Tech Talk on January 4th, 2012 No Comments »
As I have mentioned before, there is more to the Big Data story than Data Warehousing. Let me conclude first and back my way into the “why”.



