Evolution - A Window to my mind » Emerging trends

White Goat?

Wai-Kit — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:53:50 +0000

This is interesting … for US$100,600 per machine (White Goat), you will be able to take shredded office papers and turn them into a 40-sheet roll of toilet paper in…

High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons learned at Facebook

Wai-Kit — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:42:36 +0000

Jeff Rothschild, VP for Technology at Facebook, shared some detailed insights into Facebook architecture. Over the past few years, Facebook has grown into one of the largest sites on the…

Understanding Data Deduplication

Wai-Kit — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:08:50 +0000

As we look at the many ways to improve storage utilization, data deduplication often pops up as a potential technique. Data deduplication, or sometimes referred to as “intelligent compression” or…

Networking for next-generation Data Centers

Wai-Kit — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:09:05 +0000

When we think about designing and building a new data center in today’s terms, it is not a simple task anymore. Data center facilities are large, capital-intensive fixed assets and…

The things we put in Containers

Wai-Kit — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:33:43 +0000

I chanced upon this scene (below) on the way out for lunch over the weekend. While the bank branch was under renovation, they placed a few containers outside and created…

Prosumerism

Wai-Kit — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:12:14 +0000

I attended the CIO Forum Asia 2009 at the Grand Hyatt, Singapore, today. The recurring messages from the presenters were about emerging trends such as increasingly high…