Stories by Jan Matlis

Model Driven Architecture

Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is an approach to translating real-world algorithms into computer code. It focuses on representing algorithms in a modelling language, followed by a possibly automatic translation of the models into computer code. Doing justice to the definition of MDA's innovation requires a short, potted history of computers.

Internet2

Although today's Internet is often credited with creating so much change that society is still racing to catch up, it has also come to be seen as unwieldy, hidebound and problematic -- ripe for revision or replacement. Security issues, spam, slow downloads and the exploding need for URLs are only some of its problems. The Internet is sometimes seen as a victim of its own success, and several initiatives are under way to develop the Internet of the future.

Perpendicular recording

Perpendicular recording can increase magnetic media's capacity as much as 10 times. That means that microdrives that used to hold about 3000 songs could provide room for about 30,000 songs

Network Data Management Protocol

It has been a decade since the first version of the Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) was launched as an effort to solve the problems posed by the backup and recovery of network file servers. Initial work on the standard was spearheaded by Intelliguard Software (subsequently rolled into Legato Software and EMC), which produced storage management software, and Network Appliance, which manufactures network file servers.