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SteveJ-on-IT: RAID++: What invention or change is needed now to take us the next 25 years?
http://stevej-on-it.blogspot.com/2014/05/raid-what-invention-or-change-is-needed.html
Thirty Years in I.T. Theories, Ideas, Opinions. Leveraging knowledge of the past to understand now. @SteveJCbr and stevej.cbr@gmail.com. RAID : What invention or change is needed now to take us the next 25 years? For an industry, digital data storage, that's seen disruptions every 25 years, we're either overdue for one or The Next Revolution has arrived, but nobody's noticed. What will the Next Big Thing in Storage look like? What, if anything, will succeed RAID, if it hasn't already? There has also been...
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SteveJ-on-IT: Microsoft: Have missed the boat on catching up to Apple & Google.
http://stevej-on-it.blogspot.com/2013/06/microsoft-have-missed-boat-on-catching.html
Thirty Years in I.T. Theories, Ideas, Opinions. Leveraging knowledge of the past to understand now. @SteveJCbr and stevej.cbr@gmail.com. Microsoft: Have missed the boat on catching up to Apple and Google. In early 2007 I started opining that Microsoft would "hit a financial pothole". Around 2010. Thirty posts followed. Before I gave it up: the mainstream and financial press were looking seriously at the topic. [A Forbes columnist "called the game". I'm a technical person, not a financial analyst. Paul Wa...
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SteveJ-on-IT: I.T. is NOT a Profession. There are NO consequences for Failure, It's Unprofessional to not Learn.
http://stevej-on-it.blogspot.com/2013/06/it-is-not-profession-there-are-no.html
Thirty Years in I.T. Theories, Ideas, Opinions. Leveraging knowledge of the past to understand now. @SteveJCbr and stevej.cbr@gmail.com. IT is NOT a Profession. There are NO consequences for Failure, It's Unprofessional to not Learn. A response to a piece on Delimiter. Reporting QLD and VIC government project failures. Compare the local IT failures with these comments from Infoq. This is best illustrated by the findings from the US Department of Defense (the DoD).[10]. Not just the Public sector. No diff...
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SteveJ-on-IT: Security: Healthcare, Computers and Ignorance/Inaction.
http://stevej-on-it.blogspot.com/2014/01/security-healthcare-computers-and.html
Thirty Years in I.T. Theories, Ideas, Opinions. Leveraging knowledge of the past to understand now. @SteveJCbr and stevej.cbr@gmail.com. Security: Healthcare, Computers and Ignorance/Inaction. A year ago I wrote. That with the then epidemic of "ransomware" attacks the Hackers had learned how to monetise remote attacks on Healthcare practices. That piece included detailed suggestions on minimum necessary practices and questions for suppliers and vendors. This near monopoly places a high duty of care on th...
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SteveJ-on-IT: RAID: Timeline of IBM Disk Storage
http://stevej-on-it.blogspot.com/2014/05/raid-timeline-of-ibm-disk.html
Thirty Years in I.T. Theories, Ideas, Opinions. Leveraging knowledge of the past to understand now. @SteveJCbr and stevej.cbr@gmail.com. RAID: Timeline of IBM Disk Storage. A highly selective history of Disk Storage referenced later. Focussing on IBM's contributions with some of their competition mentioned. This provides context for previous articles, on Lessons from RAID. A good general reference is the Computer History Museum. And the laster Super-minicomputers. PDF, Paper on Bells Law. Computing Tabul...
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SteveJ-on-IT: RAID++: Erasures aren't Errors
http://stevej-on-it.blogspot.com/2014/06/raid-erasures-arent-errors.html
Thirty Years in I.T. Theories, Ideas, Opinions. Leveraging knowledge of the past to understand now. @SteveJCbr and stevej.cbr@gmail.com. RAID : Erasures aren't Errors. I'm following the Communications / Transmission theory nomenclature of "Erasures" to mean drive failure ('no signal') and "Errors" to mean incorrectly sent and received symbols. With 5,000 x 2.5" 2TB drives in a single rack, what hardware problems will we experience? Worldwide, it's assumed a single vendor might sell 100,000 of these arrays.
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SteveJ-on-IT: Recruiting FAIL: Update with ITCRA documents
http://stevej-on-it.blogspot.com/2014/06/recruiting-fail-update-with-itcra.html
Thirty Years in I.T. Theories, Ideas, Opinions. Leveraging knowledge of the past to understand now. @SteveJCbr and stevej.cbr@gmail.com. Recruiting FAIL: Update with ITCRA documents. I was given an undertaking that a) ITCRA would write a Case Study from my complaint, in lieu of informing me of their determinations and actions taken, and b) I would be sent a copy. A year on, Dec 2013, I enquired after the Case Study. My guess from the delay is that it'd never been written, as promised in writing. This is ...
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SteveJ-on-IT: Software Engineering: Failed profession or not? Windows vs Linux kernel
http://stevej-on-it.blogspot.com/2013/05/software-engineering-failed-profession.html
Thirty Years in I.T. Theories, Ideas, Opinions. Leveraging knowledge of the past to understand now. @SteveJCbr and stevej.cbr@gmail.com. Software Engineering: Failed profession or not? Windows vs Linux kernel. A fascinating read by a Windows Kernel developer. About the social dynamics of Linux vs Windows kernels. The post raised in me three reactions:. Comments quickly become "TL;DR" not just diminishing, but negating their value. Writing is exceedingly rare and like musical "hits", is not. Formulaic, ne...
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SteveJ-on-IT: Microsoft: End Games have started.
http://stevej-on-it.blogspot.com/2013/08/microsoft-end-games-have-started.html
Thirty Years in I.T. Theories, Ideas, Opinions. Leveraging knowledge of the past to understand now. @SteveJCbr and stevej.cbr@gmail.com. Microsoft: End Games have started. News report on a shareholder class action against the Microsoft management team. And failure of "Surface", and consequent $900MM writedown of inventory. My reaction to the friend who sent me the link:. Ballmer is acting like an Emperor. That was OK for Bill to do. He had the full commitment of the troops. Glen B Allman - NASA Program M...
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SteveJ-on-IT: RAID++, HDD's and Ownership
http://stevej-on-it.blogspot.com/2014/06/raid-hdds-and-ownership.html
Thirty Years in I.T. Theories, Ideas, Opinions. Leveraging knowledge of the past to understand now. @SteveJCbr and stevej.cbr@gmail.com. RAID , HDD's and Ownership. The underpinning of Data Storage, especially for large Enterprises, fundamentally shifted when disk drive capacity increase dropped below 7%/year (40% in 5 years, the design-life of HDD's). Disk Drives are now consumables. I posit the following following from this:. Data is the lifeblood. Replacement of failed drives. If either drive supplier...