ThePetabyteAge: Because More Isn’t Just More — More Is Different Sensors everywhere. Infinite storage. Clouds of processors. Our ability to capture, warehouse, and understand massive amounts of data is changing science, medicine,...
If we are entering an age of cheap&easy answers, of models that are distractions or even destructive - aPetabyteAge - then it will be this type of faithing, this holding of slippery&transforming questions that is at the heart of...
The latest issue of WIRED magazine carries a series of articles on how thePetabyteAge is changing the world. While all of them make a good read, one in particular seems rather bold, to say the least…and has created a controversy of...
Petabytesallow us to say:“Correlation is enough.” We can stop looking for models. We can analyze the data without hypotheses about what it might show. We can throw the numbers into the biggest computing clusters the world has ever...
Those last two units of measurement (PB/P or EBE) represent values inpetabytes(1000 terabytes) and exabytes (1000petabytes). If past trends in storage continue, we’ll be able to buy cheappetabytedrives in roughly 15 years....
