Data Gravity – in the Clouds

Today I learnt –

Data Gravitas

Today Salesforce.com announced Database.com at Dreamforce.  I realized that many could be wondering why they decided to do this and more so, why now?

The answer is Data Gravity.

Consider Data as if it were a Planet or other object with sufficient mass.  As Data accumulates (builds mass) there is a greater likelihood that additional Services and Applications will be attracted to this data. This is the same effect Gravity has on objects around a planet.  As the mass or density increases, so does the strength of gravitational pull.  As things get closer to the mass, they accelerate toward the mass at an increasingly faster velocity.  Relating this analogy to Data is what is pictured below.

Services and Applications can have their own Gravity, but Data is the most massive and dense, therefore it has the most gravity.  Data if large enough can be virtually impossible to move.

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This time its Shozu

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This is one pic in our college cafeteria.

Testing BlogJet

I have installed an interesting application – BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com

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This is bad

Today, Hulu opened to the public, and its real sad that i cannot watch a video sitting here in India(unless ofcourse, i use some kinda proxy). Anyways, i’m highly impressed by the amazing site design. Well Hulu is an online video on demand service that is also expected to offer video sharing, born as a result of the marriage of NBC and NewsCorp. It is one such service I think will revolutionalize the web-content industry. With my favorites Simpsons, The Family Guy already on Hulu, let me just wait for it to come India.

Bloggies ‘08

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