Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 304 pages
- Published by: IBM Press May 2, 2005
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0131852159
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0131852150
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
- Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Back Cover Copy
How "data everywhere" transforms business, technology, and the way you live
A pioneering look at grand, new efficiencies forthcoming
As communications, computing, and data storage converge, data is becoming utterly ubiquitousand that changes everything. In this book, two leading data management visionaries reveal how data transforms the way you do business, the technologies you use, the investments you make, the life you live, and the world you live in.
Chris Stakutis and John Webster draw on interviews with nearly 50 leading experts: technologists, sociologists, entrepreneurs, consultants, researchers, media leaders, and futurists alike. You'll discover how today's "primordial soup" of wired and wireless gadgetry is quickly coalescing into something immensely more powerful, driving applications you thought were pure science fiction. You'll also gain deep insight into the profound implications of ubiquitous data capture: implications that touch everything from your bedroom to the battlefield:
The emerging "Connectivity Divide." Which side of the chasm are you on?
Inescapable data's technical components: Async communications,
pervasive computing devices, wireless, and XML
Global calendars, momentary enterprises: Transforming your life and business
Uncontrolled information availability: Its risks to your security and well-being
The future of technical infrastructure, grids, smart storage, and beyond
Radical, new modes of information delivery: Nonnumeric, nontextual, unobtrusive
Future tech: From holographic displays to fertility "wall clocks"
Your DNA on a chip: The heart of your personal health and wellness program
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About The Author
Chris Stakutis, IBM's CTO for emerging storage software, is a prominent data storage industry inventor, technologist, and visionary with more than twenty years of experience and multiple patents in data storage management. Stakutis created SANergy and served as CTO of IBM's Tivoli SANergy Group. He has held key roles at Mercury Computer Systems, Precision Robots, MIT Lincoln Laboratories, and many other technology organizations.
John Webster, Senior Analyst and Founder, Data Mobility Group, has published hundreds of papers and articles on information and storage management. He is a featured speaker at leading storage industry events.
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Reader Reviews
I just finished reading an outstanding book that examines the world of "Inescapable Data"... Chris Stakutis and John Webster's Inescapable Data - Harnessing the Power of Convergence. Contents: The Inescapable Data Vision; The Connectivity Divide; Inescapable Data Fundamentals; From Warfare to Government, Connectivity Is Vitality; Pervading the Home; Connecting Medicine; Work Life - Oxymoron No Longer; Real-Time Manufacturing; Sports and Entertainment - Energizing Our Involvement; Connecting to Retail; Computer Storage Impacted by Inescapable Data; Super Computers, Visualization, and Networks; Inescapable Data in Perspective; Index The authors explore how technology is allowing more and more devices to broadcast and interact with each other to create linkages that haven't even begun to be explored. What if your refrigerators could broadcast to your PDA when you're at the store to let you know what's in there? With RFID tags, it's a possibility. What if you could have access to the same telemetry data that pit crews have when you go to an racing event? Could your tennis racquet transmit force and angle information to a system that could analyze your game and help you become a better player? All of these things are technically possible, and the rapid advance of processing and storage power makes it much more likely to come to pass at an affordable price point. Besides talking about possibilities, they also explore how technology has to change in order to deal with this constant onslaught of data. Companies like Wal-mart generate terabytes of data from RFID every few days. What do you save? How do you analyze it? Where does it reside and for how long? And with data being stored in XML format, how likely is it that ordinary computer users will be able to write their own tools to analyze their data? Good chance it'll happen... Probably the only thing they didn't cover in a lot of depth was the personal privacy issue. If retailers are tracking you via tags, sensors, and cameras from the time you walk in the door until you leave, you're passing a lot of information that will be stored about you. While there might be financial benefits to allowing that to happen, that benefit comes at a cost to personal privacy. The issue is acknowledged, but much more space is devoted to the potential benefits than to the potential abuses. Still, this is a book that will open your eyes to possibilities that seemed like science fiction not that very long ago. Well worth reading to expand your vision...
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