Brad Rigden

'Bad Money' provides an illuminating journey of how technology and innovation have disrupted not only money and our economy, but our societal fabric on a global scale. This is brought into context amidst the backdrop of cyclic patterns, historical events and behavioural forces, leading our society to the precipice of financial entropy.

This book lifts the veil above the influence and changes that technology is anticipated to bring as the digital century unfolds. It furthermore… Show more

'Bad Money' provides an illuminating journey of how technology and innovation have disrupted not only money and our economy, but our societal fabric on a global scale. This is brought into context amidst the backdrop of cyclic patterns, historical events and behavioural forces, leading our society to the precipice of financial entropy.

This book lifts the veil above the influence and changes that technology is anticipated to bring as the digital century unfolds. It furthermore illustrates how technological advancements are being co-opted to serve rogue agendas, thereby surfacing the business strategies and simmering geopolitical forces at play.

Whether your interests pique in FinTech, Blockchain and crypto-currencies, Artificial Intelligence, economics, money or geopolitics, this book will provide you with an enduring and entirely new perspective with which to comprehend the world around us, and navigate where we go from here.

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A research paper defining the approach and means through which the "Internet of Things" shall likely become the fabric for frictionless commerce, driven by AI.

This paper focuses on the broader architecture, capabilities and technologies required. The paper examines a number of use cases, including FMCG, Transportation Logistics and Insurance.

It highlights the need for "higher order systems", standards, industry cooperation and their respective dependencies.

A research paper exploring innovative technologies to overcome the barriers of aerial density in actuated disk spindles.

The paper explores micro lithography, alternative alloys (FePt - ferrous platinum), IBM's "Race Track", IBM's Geomagentic readers, HP's "Memrista", Holographic Storage and Flash Cells.

It further explores the necessary algorithms required to manage continued resilience, balanced with latency brought about by displacing RAID. An approach is outlined to… Show more

A research paper exploring innovative technologies to overcome the barriers of aerial density in actuated disk spindles.

The paper explores micro lithography, alternative alloys (FePt - ferrous platinum), IBM's "Race Track", IBM's Geomagentic readers, HP's "Memrista", Holographic Storage and Flash Cells.

It further explores the necessary algorithms required to manage continued resilience, balanced with latency brought about by displacing RAID. An approach is outlined to balancing the "quid pro quo" of performance and parity. Show less

A submission to INCITS (International Committee for Information Technology Standards) accredited by the American National Standards Institute to advocate for a reserve segment in the frame standard for Fibre Channel over Ethernet. This was to make provision for the ability to ensure compatibility of FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) with asymmetric (out of band) implementations of the FAIS (Fabric Application Interface Standard) for both single as well as multiple control engine (Storage… Show more

A submission to INCITS (International Committee for Information Technology Standards) accredited by the American National Standards Institute to advocate for a reserve segment in the frame standard for Fibre Channel over Ethernet. This was to make provision for the ability to ensure compatibility of FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) with asymmetric (out of band) implementations of the FAIS (Fabric Application Interface Standard) for both single as well as multiple control engine (Storage Services Modules) implementations. This allows targets exposed via Unified I/O to be virtualised by application controlled initiators such as EMC Invista (or competitors) as well as co-exist simultaneously with applications such as FalconStor or NASB (Network Accelerated Serverless Backup) or their competitors.

The objective of this submission was to ensure that FAIS virtualised environments would be able to exploit FCoE and Unified I/O when refreshing their fabrics without having to sacrifice the benefits of virtualisation. The converse objective is to ensure that adopters of FCoE and Unified I/O wouldn't have to revert to conventional Fibre Channel, in order to exploit FAIS virtualisation.

The "Reserved" section within the frame format would allow for standards such as FAIS to effect frame header rewriting in order to intercept and control traffic between SCSI-3 initiators and targets traversing the FCoE network via the data path while control path data traverses the Ethernet layer via IP outside of the FC Frame.

INCITS on behalf of ANSI, accepted the premise of these arguments and made the necessary alterations to the T11 FC-BB-5 standard, published in 2009. The submission challenge was ratified at the ANSI Summer Plenary 2008. Show less

Applying hyper-optimised architectural and business practices in concert with acute consumption and transaction economics. An approach to optimise aggregate efficiency in the value chain to achieve a superior competitive position, through outsourced IT Infrastructure utilities.