Lockdowns and bursting filter bubbles
Maybe you’ve not really thought about this before, but a significant portion of the content you see when you’re online is curated by filter bubbles, more specifically your filter bubbles, and lockdown...
View ArticleHow much money are you wasting on compute in the cloud?
For us it was 73%, no that is not a typo. When we introduced Spot into our engineering / development environment 73% was the amount we reduced our spend on cloud compute by and there was no impact to...
View ArticleMaking sense of your data, what, where, why and who?
Imagine having an application that can understand all of the data that you’re storing, that can do this for ANY unstructured data across any vendor, that can scan any S3 compatible source, that can...
View ArticleDecoding COVID and solving the software problem
‘The original Human Genome Project required 13 years of work and cost more than $3 billion, now we can sequence the Genome overnight’ I’m often looking for interesting examples of progress, not just...
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Time Crystals in layman’s terms, possibly
I’m going way off what I would normally blog about for this one, but this has absolutely fascinated me. ‘Time Crystals’ were theorized back in 2012 and identified in 2016. They’ve really hit the news...
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A Yottabyte by 2030, that’s a whole Yotta CO² emissions
By 2030 if data continues to grow at the current rate, then we are likely to exceed 1 Yottabyte of data created in a single year. (For reference, a Yottabyte is approximately 1,000 zettabytes, a...
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It took a pandemic to make us think properly about our future flexible workforce
Sometimes it takes a major event to force a change. Without such an event to make us challenge ourselves hard about something, we often just carry on doing what we’ve always done the way we’ve always...
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How Alexa enlightened me on the future for IT
It’s been my ongoing home automation process that really got me thinking about the parallels between this and Hybrid / Multicloud computing, which I think we can all generally accept is the future for...
View ArticleNetApp Cloud Manager isn’t just for managing clouds
Okay I know that’s a bit of an oxymoron, maybe it’s time for a name change? Over the last 6 – 12 months we’ve been adding more and more capabilities into Cloud Manager for companies that would like to...
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No more houses, Data Centres have consumed all the electricity
Housing projects may have to be put on hold in west London until 2035 as the electricity grid has run out of capacity. How did this happen and where has all the capacity gone? Of course, there are...
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