Your data locality...

...should be?

Some might wonder purely for curiosity momentarily sent an impulse which extinguished soon enough and the notion has passed.

Other perhaps even daily, seriously scratch their heads thinking how that would play – if it is not doing so already – into their businesses operations & logic.

Cloud, oh that cloud is what many of us today live on.

Can you even remember – if you were born, alive and well that is – when year 1996 was? But no, seriously.. was it not ages ago? Was that not some dark ages back then? Well, it was not, to the contrary, it was good times!

In 1996 Larry Ellison, of Oracle at the time, said “…Suddenly, when networking becomes fast and cheap, we have to rethink the kind of devices we attach to these networks. … we really have a mainframe on the desktop. We really have incredible power, and thousands of applications. The only problem is, that's not what I want [as a user]. I don't want to do backups, I don't want to do installations of operating systems, I don't want utilities to manage these things, which I think are unbelievably complicated--and I do these things for a living.

He continued “…When we talk about a network computer, a lot of people say, 'That's a dumb terminal.' These are not dumb terminals. What we're really doing is throwing the hard disk away. And instead of a hard disk, we give you a fast network connection and have someone else be responsible for maintaining what's on your hard disk. With a network computer, when there's a new version of the operating system and it's Thursday, when you turn the computer on, you get the new version…”