I'm one of the founders of a startup called Tokutek, as well as CTO. I'm also a professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University. Tokutek is based on a bunch of research I did with Michael Bender (SUNY Stony Brook) and Bradley Kuszmaul (MIT). The purpose of this blog is -- more or less -- to explain why we started this company. What I mean is that we have a new way at looking at memory systems based on a relatively new algorithmic approach called Cache Oblivious Algorithmics. I'd like to tell you what that means for systems and users.