In a world of rapid technological change and startups popping up claiming to have the next best tool that will revolutionize the way you do business, it’s sometimes hard to stay away from the light. I tend to think my age (31), diverse professional background, along with my passion for studying business, positions me with…
Shocking… IBM i Cost of Storage beyond the CEC: EXP24S or V3700 SAN?
As data, and company’s overall demand for data increases at a staggering rate, many of my IBM i customers who have always relied solely on the internal storage capacity of their base server (Also known as the CEC), are being forced to expand outside of their IBM Power System chassis. I believe this has been…
Where Are You Going to Store Your Data? Large, High Speed Disk? Flash? DNA?…… DNA?
Four years ago researchers at Harvard University were able to successfully store 700 terabytes of data in a gram of DNA. It wasn’t the first time that DNA was successfully used to store data but it was the first time that a very large volume of data was stored successfully. The work done at Harvard’s…
Out growing your IBM Power system internal disk? Expansion drawer or Bigger Drives?
Anyone who has worked with IBM i knows how important disk I/O is to system performance. You can throw a 60,000 CPW, IBM Power System running IBM i, flat on its back if it’s not given the disk resources it needs to read and write at a pace greater then what the user demands. The…
Social Media and Business, the Business of Insight
I’ve been thinking a lot about social media and the use of the massive amounts of data that it represents. I’ve had reason to think about it lately because we’re in that business. I sometimes find the universe of what I call social data too large to comprehend. The term used in the industry is…