From GigaOM: The Google network has seen its data consumed double, to 600 GB transferred each day in July 2009 from 300 GB in July 2007, while the number of users has increased by a mere 27 percent to 19,000. Some of this is likely a result of more time spent online, but it’s also a result of Wi-Fi on web-surfing phones, which makes casual access to a network easier than ever. As we craft our broadband policy, the need to future-proof our networks and invest in faster speeds and more capacity seems clear.
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31Aug
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28Aug
The full text of Paul Hemp’s Harvard Business Review article is now available here
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24Aug
The September issue of Wired has a 1-page update on Gordon Bell’s MyLifeBits project in which he attempts to store all the data he processes daily. We get a glimpse in the article of what he backed-up so far, but no word on the growth rate of his personal data.
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20Aug
From the 2009 EMC Information Calendar: “The Internet is the world’s largest library. It’s just that all the books are on the floor.” -John Allen Paulos
“If you look at the physical assets of an organization, they’re very carefully managed. Like the stock in a grocery store. They know exactly what they have. They have it appropriately arrayed on their shelves. They get new stock when they need it. If you look at that same organization in terms of their information resources, it’s as if you backed a truck up into the back of the store and dumped out all the groceries and said ‘Okay, we’re open for business.’” -Bob Boiko, author of Laughing at the CIO
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