From ON Magazine, Number 4, 2009
From the Web of Documents to the Web of Data:
Tim Berners-Lee on the Future of his Invention
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25JanAbout information, Cloud Computing, Information Management, Information Overload, Libraries, ON Magazine, Web@20 No Comments
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08Jul
Bill Gates once said, if memory serves, that Microsoft was the answer to the question “what if computing is free?” Yesterday, Google answered with its own question: “What if networking is free?”
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26Mar
“These billions of gigabytes, however, will not join together in a monolithic cloud, providing a neat, serviceable, efficient, information-delivery infrastructure run by a few large utilities. My hunch is that the future will be as chaotic, unpredictable, inventive, and exciting as the present.
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12Sep
In March 2008, EMC released IDC’s update to its digital universe forecast, available at www.emc.com/digital_universe. It turns out the digital universe is already bigger and growing faster than estimated last year and is projected to reach close to 1,800 billion gigabytes (1,800 exabytes) of information newly created in 2011. An important characteristic of this digital universe has not changed: 70% of the information in it is created by individuals, but organizations are responsible for the security, privacy, reliability, and compliance of 85% of the digital universe.
IDC’s estimates help us size the cloud in “cloud computing,” the latest concept to ignite industry excitement, trepidation, and various strategic actions. As with other buzzwords, this one lacks a common definition and encapsulates many unrelated recent developments: a new way to deliver information technology as a service, “Web 2.0” tools, and new Web-based content aggregators.
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