Storage in the year 2050

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Steve Duplessie from Enterprise Strategy Group discusses the odd fact that IT techology firms are doing quite well, despite the pessimism in the rest of the US economy. From his post [State of the Union], hereis an excerpt:

"Mark Hurd stole the big-deal show buying EDS, but Andy Monshaw's storage business at IBM has done the most interesting and most out-of-the-box deals in the sector. I would have never believed anyone in that job would ever buck the outrageous "not invented here" attitude that has been the hallmark of that group. It remains to be seen if the infusion of outside talent will have the desired effect or the anti-bodies and big company politics will push out the new blood. No matter what, you have to give Monshaw due credit for doing what few ever thought could be done by lighting a fire under the group and making IBM storage interesting. By the end of 2008 we should be able to get a feel for how it's going – death or glory, if you will. Maybe both – with glory usually comes some death."

No question, the storage industry will change a lot this year, and IBM is leading the effort. IBM is one of themajor sponsors for the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) latest project "How Much Information?" study.Digital Journal has an article that goes into more detail on this project, titled[Study aims to quantify the amount of information in the world].I often refer to the ["How Much Information 2003"] study results, and show how far we have grown since then.

Elsewhere, IBM is collaborating with another University in the state of California, this time USC, to developa project that forecasts the future of IT technology in the year 2050. Here is a quick video: