Note di Matteo

Scrive il WSJ che gli hard disk costituiscono l'80-90% dei sistemi di storage nei datacenter (la tecnologia SSD è troppo costosa), e con la necessità di raccogliere molti dati per il training di AI le aziende leader del settore (Seagate e Western Digital) sono in forte crescita.

E mi sorprende vedere che c'è ancora spazio per l'innovazione:

Both [companies] are moving toward a new hard-drive storage technology called heat-assisted magnetic recording, or HAMR. Seagate is rolling it out now, and Western Digital is set to do so in a couple of years.

HAMR opens the way to larger-capacity drives—30 terabytes and more. The companies have been working on the technology for many years, and there’s no easy path for competitors to challenge them.

I was at a leadership group, people were telling me they think that with AI they can replace all of our junior people in our company. That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. [...]

How's that going to work when ten years in the future you have no one that has learned anything. My view is you absolutely want to keep hiring kids out of college and teaching them the right ways to go build software and decompose problems and think about it, just as much as you ever have.

Matt Garman, CEO AWS (via)