Hard drives: A bit of progress

[Anne & Lynn Wheeler]

Hard drives: A bit of progress
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120510095620.htm

article mentions A*STAR Data Storage ... seems awfully reminiscent of
ADSTAR ... which was the renamed disk division as it was being prepared
to be sold off in the early 90s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADSTAR

then the management change ... resurrection of IBM ... referenced here:
http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2012/02/10/review-of-who-says-elephants-cant-dance-by-louis-gerstner.html

The wiki reference also mentions ADSM ... which then becomes TSM. ADSM
was a morph of the Workstation Datasave Facility from research (ADSM was
trivial upgrade for existing WDSF customers). WDSF started out as the
internal CMS Backup ... which I had done for internal datacenters
... some old email
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#cmsback

I've repeated a number of times a senior disk engineer, in the late 80s
got a talk scheduled at an annual, internal, world-wide communication
group talk and opened the talk with the comment that the communication
group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk
division. The issue was that the communication group had stranglehold on
datacenters (strategic responsibility for everything that cross the
datacenter walls) and were attempting to preserve their terminal
emulation install base. The limitations were resulting in data fleeing
the datacenters for more distributed computing friendly platforms (and
disk division was seeing corresponding drop off in disk sales). The disk
division had come up with a number of products to address the problem,
but the communication group with their "strategic ownership" were
veto'ing the products. misc. past posts mentioning terminal emulation
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#emulation

misc past posts being allowed to play disk engineer in bldgs. 14&15
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk

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