Recent press reports about a bidding war for 3PAR bring into focus the expanding need for enterprise class data storage subsystems.  What exactly is enterprise storage? Defining enterprise storage is frought with problems but I will take a shot.  Enterprise class data storage has: Enhanced reliability, high availability and serviceability – meaning it hardly ever [...]

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 38TB (10**12 bytes) a second.  This seems high and I have talked about how we [...]

A head assembly on a Seagate disk drive by Robert Scoble (cc) (from flickr) I was reading about pythons becoming an invasive species in the Florida Everglades and that brought to mind SSDs.  The current ecological niche in data storage has rotating media as the most prolific predator with tape going on the endangered species [...]

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 PB of data.  Seems a bit high from my perspective. Data creation by individuals The [...]