Data Gravity occurs at all scales from micro to macro (inside a single system to across the Internet on distributed systems)

Lowering Latency increases Data Gravity and also increases the speed at which new Data Mass is created/compounded

RT @dberkholz.com on BlueSky (Donnie Berkholz, Ph.D.): Will cloud help the US economy? Thinking DataGravity might force ever-growing data to stay near the business.

There is no such thing as Defying Data Gravity, but mitigating/manipulating the effects is possible & so is achieving Escape Velocity

There will be profound effects on Data Gravity if/when traditional memory and storage merge into one "thing"

The first independent article on Data Gravity by ZDNet UK - j.mp/J9HTyS

Second Data Gravity article by ReadWriteWeb - readwriteweb.com/cloud/2012/05/…

Tape lives! Supercomputer to be built with 380PB of tape storage - j.mp/KfPnSE - A lot of Data Gravity effects at work here.

SiliconAngle post on Data Gravity & Converged Infra. - j.mp/L0Y92C

Applications are attracted to Data by Data Gravity, but only gain Data Gravity of their own with an API.

If you are analyzing the data, then you are the computer.

In honor of Brigid McCrory 's keynote, USPTO issued my 17th patent this AM on optimizing job placement in a grid/cloud patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pa…

Managing Entropy and Complexity is the other aspect that makes dealing with Data Gravity difficult.

Cool shout out about Data Gravity from Jeremy Edberg via High Scalability Lessons Learned...Scaling to 1B Pageviews/Month highscalability.com/blog/2013/8/26…

Amazed by the activity in the Data spaces and the belief that everything can be stored in a single way, in a single location.

Just to clarify, this handle DataGravity has nothing to do with DataGravity® No one seems to bother checking Twitter Handles anymore.

Wishing departing CEO Ben Golub all the best as Docker takes a new turn. x.com/thenewstack/st…

Welcome James Gosling to the #AWS family! m.facebook.com/james.gosling.…

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