@Misc{gray:infinite,
  author = {Jim Gray},
  title = {What Happens When Processing, Storage, and Bandwidth are Free and
  Infinite?},
  year = {1997},
  month = {November},
  howpublished = {Keynote address at IOPADS~'97},
  URL = {http://www.research.microsoft.com/barc/gray/talks/IOPADS.ppt},
  keywords = {parallel computing, computer architecture, parallel I/O,
  pario-bib, memory hierarchy, distributed computing, database, object
  oriented},
  abstract = {Technology trends promise to give us processors with pico-second
  clock speeds. These pico-processors will spend much of their time waiting for
  information from the storage hierarchy. I believe this will force us to adopt
  a data-flow programming model. Similar trends will bless us with peta-byte
  online stores with exa-byte near-line stores. One large disk manufacture
  claims it costs 8$/year to manage a megabyte of online storage. That is 8
  Billion dollars per year to manage a petabyte. Automating storage management
  is one of our major challenges. This talk covers these technology trends,
  surveys the current status of commercial software tools (aka database
  systems), their peak performance and price performance. It then poses four
  major challenges: total-cost-of ownership, long-term archiving, reliably
  storing exabytes, and data mining on petabyte databases.},
  comment = {Very interesting talk. URL points to PowerPoint slides.}
}