Posts by Steve Todd
Innovation Mentoring Lessons Learned
My experience with innovation mentoring during 2013 turned into something quite different from what I was aiming for. The goal was initially innovative new products, but the result was leadership development.
Read MoreApplication Innovation
Steve Todd classifies the complexity of infrastructure-based applications and Three Forms of Application Workloads.
Read MoreData Center and Infrastructure Innovation
Infrastructure-based metadata, in general, has much more complex inter-dependencies than the more traditional content-based metadata. In this post, I’d like to describe one of the main areas where evolution in metadata expansion occurred: infrastructure-based workloads.
Read MoreInnovation by Acquisition in High-Tech
As workload complexity increased, applications began to utilize three very different forms of storage interfaces: block, file, and object. This in turn led to the deployment of different storage architectures within the data center: SAN, NAS, and CAS. Each of these three architectures internally organized application metadata in different ways…
Read MoreApplication Workloads and Object Innovation
The increased importance that new workloads placed on metadata drove the industry to treat metadata as a first-class citizen. The “interspersal” technique used by most NAS devices did not lend itself to the new workloads. As a result, the industry evolved (yet again) in response to these new applications and facilitated the rise of object-based storage systems.
Read MoreWorkload Evolution and the Rise of Metadata
One of the most significant innovations in response to the metadata trend was NAS: Network-Attached Storage. The value is in the metadata. It dictates the accessibility to the content.
Read MoreDepartmental Workloads and Innovation in High Tech Industry
Steve Todd reports on the evolution of application workloads as a primary cause of innovation in the high-tech industry.
Read MoreService Levels and Innovation
For this post I’d like to highlight that innovation in high-tech is also driven by the service level needs of applications (the X-axis).
Read MoreApplication Workload Innovation
As software applications become increasingly complex, they drive innovation from the underlying IT infrastructure that has to service those applications. In this post I’d like to dive into two specific examples. The first example describes application workloads in a high-end context. The second example describes a mid-range, open-systems context.
Read MoreApplication Workload Evolution
Application workload requirements drive innovation and dramatic change into existing IT infrastructures. Steve Todd shows us a an approach to have valuable innovation discussions in high-tech, in the context of application workloads.
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