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Box-counter IDC recently decreed that 2014's first quarter was a shocker for high-end storage sales, but also predicts things are looking up in storage used for what it now calls “high performance data analysis” (HPDA). IDC's veep for HPC and data analysis Steve Conway puts HDPA in a little perspective with a canned quote …

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  1. brooxta

    Tilte issues

    > High-end storage tanked, but 'HDPA' storage about to soar says IDC

    >That'd be 'high performance data analysis' kit for HPC-inspired Hadoopery

    So, presumably that'd be "HPDA" rather than "HDPA"? :-)

    Although I'm all in favour of HDPA, anything that improves the sound quality on most public address systems would be a good thing.

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    1. Desidero
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      Re: Tilte issues

      I figured it was High Data Performance Analysis. Like many boffins, your data is often seen to have a spleef or 2 at lunch, come back a bit lethargic, and fall asleep by mid-afternoon. That'd be bad news, but at 3am, it's out at rave parties picking up trends and sexy correlations, and carrying on in ways you and I haven't in decades. Overall, the good outweighs the bad.

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