A New Opera
The evolution of the "browser" has had a huge impact on making content available to everyone everywhere. We also take it for granted that we can walk up to any computer connected to the Internet and expect to find a browser there. Not only that but we automatically know how to use it! The world […]
Outflanking
A Google search on the word outsourcing produces more than 33 million results. After reading the story about the Nortel/IBM contract, it got me thinking about what outsourcing is all about and where it is headed. The aim of this short story is to offer a perspective on the past, present, and future of outsourcing. […]
Yottabytes – Feedback
Bill Reith says " the correct unit of measure is not ‘yottabytes’ but ‘awholelottabytes’". He also pointed out that a key issue is how to retrieve all the data. In particular he says that often he finds himself saying "I know I have an email…or a document… on that subject around here somewhere. Where the heck did […]
Yottabytes
The amount of data and meta data that we are creating and saving is growing at an incredible clip. The data includes emails, presentations, documents, and other things but the majority of the data for many people is digital pictures and digital music. The meta data is data about the data. For example, a song […]
Irving’s Blog
I first met Irving Wladawsky-Berger sometime in 1992. I was impressed with his keen interest in technology and the things I was working on. We have continued as friends and colleagues ever since. Irving has had a distinguished career at IBM including heading up the IT group in IBM Research, getting IBM into the supercomputer […]
