I suspected it would have to be a system of that era.
I think I have a good idea of how businesses (at a high level) have failed to understand Moore's law from 2000-present. I'm curious what those failures of understanding were like from 1985-2000.
We all know that technology has been advancing rapidly, but these specific anecdotes of organizations paying a million dollars just for the backing storage of a system that you can essentially get for free from Google now...
Yeah, it's pretty amazing how much things have changed. That raw log data was about 250GB/year which is nothing today but when we started collecting it we were paying $1000/GB.
Actually, they're probably still paying over $100/GB. The whole datacenter was outsourced to Perot Systems in the mid-2000s, and the storage fees were astronomical. We calculated that Perot must pay a separate tech to stare at each individual hard drive with a replacement in-hand in case any errors were reported. At least, they could afford to do that with what we were paying them for storage.
I think I have a good idea of how businesses (at a high level) have failed to understand Moore's law from 2000-present. I'm curious what those failures of understanding were like from 1985-2000.
We all know that technology has been advancing rapidly, but these specific anecdotes of organizations paying a million dollars just for the backing storage of a system that you can essentially get for free from Google now...