December IV

Today I have couple various topics for you:
Year-end interviews with Tom Wultich (Oracle Tape Executive) and Chuck Hollis (EMC CTO) on how they see the storage market and their respective companies in 2013.

A couple future-related stories (beyond 2013!) and analysis coming from:

• ASTRON: a plan for a "square kilometer array (SKA)" telescope and how they plan to store and manage data created at a rate of 10 petabits (1 billion gigabits) per second!
• EMC ("The Digital Universe" and "Project X")
• VMware (software defined data centers) 
• IBM claiming the possibility that computers may have a sense of smell one day...scary!

And lastly a very recent Computerworld report on SSD price trends: according to that report, SSDs recently  broke the magic 1$/GB price point and have dropped more than 20% since the beginning of 2012!