Computing

A few days ago there were a raging discussion in my blog with a reader about the future of storage. The discussion ignited about my text about the waning importance of storage array controllers.. I'm argued that we will see different storage concepts in the future, whereas the reader was pretty sure, that the storage controllers will play the same role in the future than today and that's just Sun who thinks differently (at least that was my understanding of his comments)

Yesterday i found the following article of the Storageractice of Sun Taiwan: They cite in 你還需要儲存區域網路嗎 a study of Forrester about the future of storage. My colleagues in Taiwan posted a single slide of this document. And the slide is really interesting, as it supports some of my arguments in regard of the future development of storage.

When you work as an architect in the IT industry you tend to look at the non-IT processes in your world with the eyes of an IT archtitect. And at many occassions you find the same problems. Perhaps the design techniques of efficent CPUs and software can help to do a really efficient lunch distribution ... and i´m sure some of the problems of CPU or software design were solved by obeserving the people at luch time.

Let´s have just a look at the lunch shops around the Sun office in Hamburg.