Category Archives: Data growth

5 killer apps for $0.10/TB/year

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Ray

Cloud storage keeps getting more viable and I see storage pricing going down considerably over time.  All of which got me thinking what could be done with a dime per TB per year storage ($0.10/TB/yr).  Now most cloud providers charge … Continue reading →

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More on data growth from NetApp analyst days customers

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Ray

Some customers at NetApp’s Analyst Days were discussing deployments of NetApp storage with Dave Hitz the new storage efficiency czar and others but I was more interested in their comments on storage growth issues. Jonathan Bartes of Virginia Farm Bureau … Continue reading →

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3.3 Exabytes-a-day?!

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Ray

NetworkWorld announced today information from an EMC funded IDC study that said the world will create 1.2 Zettabytes (ZB, 10**21 bytes) of data in 2010. By my calculations this is 3.3 Exabytes-a-day (XB,10**18 bytes), 2.3PB (10**15 bytes) a minute or … Continue reading →

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Telescope VLBI data storage appetite

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Ray

I read a news release the other day about a new space discovery called a “micro-quasar”.  The scientists were awaiting analysis of a VLBI (very large baseline inferometery) study involving 20 telescopes to confirm their analysis.    It was said that … Continue reading →

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64GB iPad is not enough

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Ray

I currently don’t have an iPad but I have seen the videos and played with one at the local BestBuy but IMHO, 64GB is not enough for a laptop killer.  My current desktop TAR file backup of documents, pictures and … Continue reading →

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Smart metering’s data storage appetite

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Ray

A couple of years back I was talking with a storage person from PG&E and he was concerned about the storage performance aspects of installing smart meters in California.  I saw a website devoted to another electric company in California … Continue reading →

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What is cloud storage good for?

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Ray

Cloud storage has emerged  as a viable business service in the last couple of years, but what does cloud storage really do for the data center.  Moving data out to the cloud makes for unpredictable access times with potentially unsecured and unprotected … 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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