Digitalisation vs digitisation? It's like envision vs envisage - an apparently more impressive word to replace a perfectly good existing word. Either just rings alarm bells to indicate that the writer has nothing to say and needs to tart it up with spray-finished words.
How digitalisation will change your storage culture
How close to reality is the all-flash enterprise data centre? Depending on infrastructure heritage, appetite and capital available the answer is likely to be: "Closer than you think". Another question is whether running an all-flash infrastructure is the right choice for your organisation. Even up to relatively recently an …
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Monday 22nd January 2018 18:43 GMT Mike Shepherd
Agreed
From Digital Signal Processing by Steven W Smith, chapter 3:
When electronics got around to inventing digital techniques, the preferred names had already been snatched up by the medical community nearly a century before. Digitalize and digitalization mean to administer the heart stimulant digitalis.
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Monday 22nd January 2018 19:02 GMT kolkurtz
Damn I am glad someone else picked up on this. "Digitialisation" is all over our organisation and it is driving me to distraction. Don't even get me started on people saying on-premise as opposed to in the cloud! Premises is not a plural, it is god damn singular.
As far as I know with digitisation, there is a distinction. Digitisation is the conversion of print media, digitialisation is conversion of analog signals to digital. People should not be conflating the two.
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Tuesday 30th January 2018 10:57 GMT AndytheArchitect
Price is less of an issue now
Some manufacturers in the mid range are now selling flash drives as cheaply as 15K spinning disks and they can be had in far larger capacities. Dell is an obvious example. Others sell all flash arrays that compete directly on price and performance with hybrids.
Personally I would go for the simplicity of an all flash array over a hybrid, all other things being equal.