Tag Archives: Data growth

Disk capacity growing out-of-sight

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Ray

Last week, Hitachi Global Storage Division(acquired by Western Digital, closing in 4Q2011) and Seagate announced some higher capacity disk drives for desk top applications over the past week. Most of us in the industry have become somewhat jaded with respect … Continue reading →

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Coming data bubble or explosion?

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Ray

I was at another conference the other day where someone showed a chart that said the world will create 35ZB (10**21) of data and content in 2020 from 800EB (10**18) in 2009. Every time I see something like this I cringe.   … Continue reading →

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5 laws of unstructured data

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Ray

All data operates under a set of laws but unstructured data suffers from these tendencies more than most of all. Although, information technology has helped us to create and manage data easier, it hasn’t done much to minimize the problems … Continue reading →

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The future of libraries

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Ray

My recent post on an exabyte-a-day generated a comment that got me thinking. What we need in the world today is a universal deduped archive. Such an archive would be a repository for all information generated by the world, nation, … Continue reading →

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An Exabyte-a-day

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Ray

At HPTechDay this week Jim Pownell, office of CTO, HP StorageWorks Division, reported on an IDC study that said this year the world is creating about an Exabyte of data each day.  An Exabyte (XB) is 10**18 bytes or 1000 … Continue reading →

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