Techno Musings

Not so long ago I read a story that stated many college students today appear to be lacking in empathy.  I suggest that you take a gander at the article, it is an interesting read. However, from talking to folks that live in New Orleans post Katrina they continue to say that there are many college [...]

Recently there was a study commissioned by Microsoft and RSA which compared the preparedness of security executives in the area of compliance versus protection of Intellectual Property assets.  I have to say that I applaud these companies for bringing the core issue to the top of the IT industry’s mind.  It has long been known [...]

Today the Gazopa team announced the availability of a new service on top of the visual searching platform. This system is another demonstration of the core image search technology, but adds crowd sourcing to the visual searching. The site is Gazopa Bloom and is available for private beta, so head on over and [...]

There is a very thought provoking article at NYtimes.com on the differences between privacy in the US and in the EU.  I really suggest that as technologists and engineers you take the opportunity to read the article and bone up on this and other regionally specific laws, procedures, and perceptions. Conformance to them can make [...]

If you have not already heard the Hitachi Central Research Lab has their image search engine at the beta stage.  The name of the beta application is Gazopa and there are even iPhone and Facebook applications for the service.

Last week there was a rumor that EMC would buy Kazeon and this week they confirmed the rumor with a purchase. (Some sound commentary on Kazeon from one of the leaders in the eDiscovery industry can be found here.) Well, I have to thank EMC again for copying Hitachi, it makes me [...]

There is a great article about GFS V2 — well that is the current name used in the public press — which talks about a new file system being created removing limitations imposed by the original nearly decade old version of GFS.  The key challenge: application I/O patterns changing due to increased interaction directly with [...]

As it takes a community to raise a child, it takes a strong group to build a solid strategy.  In an effort to expose a team  I work with regularly to the world, I’m going to have them as guest bloggers over the next several months.  Take a look at their materials, comment and supply [...]

My flippant title is a bit intentional after all when tiering your data many people dock their data someplace to save it for a rainy day.  Sometimes that is indeed the case and perhaps files are placed in a long term tier for safe keeping. Typically we call this an active archive so that when [...]