Challenges in Economic Massive Content Storage and Management (MCSAM) in the Era of Self-Organizing, Self-Expanding and Self-Linking Data Clusters

Rapid spread of social networks, global on-line shopping, post 9/11 security oriented linking of data bases and foremost the global adoption of smart phones/devices, among other phenomena, are transforming data clusters into dynamic and almost uncontrollable entities that have their own local intelligence, clients and objectives. The scale and rapidity of change is such that large scale innovations in content storage and management are urgently needed if the diseconomies of scale and complexity are to be mitigated. The field needs to reinvent itself. Istanbul, a city that has reinvented itself many times is an excellent venue to engage in such a discussion and for me to offer suggestions and proposals that derive from personal experiences that span academia, start ups, R&D firms and Bell Labs as well my early years spent in Istanbul.