Jonathan Schwartz's BlogJonathan Schwartz's BlogAnything But a Flash in the Pan- June 10, 2008 There are only two kinds of storage devices - those that have failed, and those that are about to fail. That's the view most datacenters have about the traditionally mechanical devices pejoratively referred to as "spinning rust." All disk drives fail, cheap drives fail faster. If the average time to fail is five years, you and your laptop can make do with the occasional backup. But when an average enterprise has 100, or 1,000, or increasingly 10,000 or 100,000 individual disk...http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/not_a_flash_in_the Growing in the P7 (not just the G7)- June 2, 2008 De facto standards are the only ones that matter. That's a bit of a truism in the technology world - well intentioned standards bodies and departments of justice can do their best, but at the end of the day, volume deployment is the only setter of standards. Ubiquity trumps policy, just about every time. To that point, I was on a panel recently, discussing the impact of technology on the world's more rapidly developing economies (what's often referred to as "BRICA," or...http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/population_matters |