Admit it: You never think about data storage any more. We used to, quite a bit. Long before the storage glut that exists today, there was already too much of it, and it was hard to find places to store it. When we built software, it was with an eye toward maximizing our limited storage capacities, we looked after computer memory the way thirsty people in a desert manage their canteens. Bill Gates once famously said we’d never need more than 640 kb on a computer. That was a long time ago. Then we all got fat on data.
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The Data Experience Transformation
Posted by: Denis Pombriant May 4, 2011 05:00 AMAdmit it: You never think about data storage any more. We used to, quite a bit. Long before the storage glut that exists today, there was already too much of it, and it was hard to find places to store it. When we built software, it was with an eye toward maximizing our limited storage capacities, we looked after computer memory the way thirsty people in a desert manage their canteens. Bill Gates once famously said we’d never need more than 640 kb on a computer. That was a long time ago. Then we all got fat on data.