Pent up demand…45 Terabytes worth
SearchStorageChannel.com ‘s annual IT Spending Survey indicates storage manager will add an average of 45TB per company this year alone. 6TB more than anticipated last year….talk about pent up demand....
View Article[Infographic:] World of Data in Gigabytes per day
Yeah, yet another infographic on data!…but this one has some insane numbers when you put them into a common unit of measure and time stamp. Let’s use Gigabytes per day, at least for the ones I can...
View ArticleWhere’s our sense of ownership going?
. Remember when you would proudly display your album collection, DVDs, CDs, books, photos, etc. on huge shelving units in your family room, office, etc.? There was a sense of pride in the collections...
View Article[Chart] The Location of Data is Changing
Source: Seagate Market Research & Competitive Intelligence. Consider what this chart tells us… In 2011, 450 Exabytes were shipped, 25% of which went into the cloud. In 2020, 7000 Exabytes (7...
View ArticleHow to store everything forever…using compact disks?
. Image by Phillips Who would have known that with the explosive growth of data and the need to hang on to it for years, even decades, would be addressed by the beloved compact disk? Call it...
View ArticleWhen is Seagate going to offer a cloud drive?
The one thing about Cloud Expo, nearly every presentation included the word DATA. Sometimes even referencing measurements of data like terabytes, petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes, and even yottabytes....
View ArticleA world without NAND is like a world without a BFF
. Toshiba, as a maker of NAND flash (the storage we find in the smartphones, tablets, Ultrabooks, even enterprise servers and storage we know and love) embarked on a social media infused effort to pose...
View ArticleFast food and fast data are making us fat!
Image by: Super Size Me, the movie The world is getting fat…data fat that is. We have all heard the statistics (source: Wikibon): YouTube users upload 48 hours of new video every minute of the day....
View Article[Infographic:] How far does 1200 Exabytes per year take us?
First of all, how much is 1200 Exabytes? 1200 exabytes is… 1,200,000,000,000 Gigabytes 1,200,000,000 Terabytes 1,200,000 Petabytes 1.2 Zettabytes Ok, that’s just a bunch of data storage-speak. Let’s...
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