27 Billion Gigabytes to be Archived by 2010 178
Lucas123 writes "According to a Computerworld survey of IT managers, data storage projects are the No. 2 project priority for corporations in 2008, up from No. 4 in 2007. IT teams are looking into clustered architectures and centralized storage-area networks as one way to control capacity growth, shifting away from big-iron storage and custom applications. The reason for the data avalanche? Archive data. In the private sector alone electronic archives will take up 27,000 petabytes (27 billion gigabytes) by 2010. E-mail growth accounts for much of that figure."
E-mail growth... (Score:5, Funny)
2010 (Score:5, Funny)
Use standard units people understand. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:We have the prefixes, why not use them? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:We have the prefixes, why not use them? (Score:5, Funny)
This is starting to be Manditory (Score:3, Funny)
My pr0n collection takes at least 3 Internets* to store, archived.
*(sorry, forgot the conversion rate for Libraries of Congress)
Moving away from Big Iron? (Score:3, Funny)
NetApp is a great company and makes a great product aimed for a specific market segment: Fileservices (NFS/CIFS). I don't see many customers tossing out the EMC DMX, HDS Tagmastore or IBM Shark for a FC enabled netapp array. I also don't see a lot of FICON shops asking netapp to support FICON.
Now the phase storage mgmt is entering is the 'good enough' phase. Does my organization need the current generation of "high end" arrays? Maybe not. The current generation of midrange with its better or cheaper $/GB and increasingly parallel featureset to the highend arrays, is starting to looking more attractive to many customers.
Re:Moving away from Big Iron? (Score:4, Funny)
and yes I do.
will someone think of the kids! (Score:5, Funny)
I agree. However, I would go even further and instead of using geekish bytes and bits we should use something like 400 billions of mp3s. You know, so that myspace user out there can understand TFA. They clearly have interest in this sort of news.
Re:Moving away from Big Iron? (Score:4, Funny)
Hooking up a pair of EMC DMX's (or IBM ESSes, or HDS USPs) over a pair of OC48s for SRDF/PPRC/USR unless you are a zOS shop, then you could run XRC. Since this is a BC/DR plan, we'll run it over FCIP protected by IPSec over a DWDM leased line, which must be protected by a UPSR/BLSR, otherwise in the event of a link failure, the R1s will split from the R2s.
Then you're SOL.
Re:nibbles! (Score:2, Funny)
no need to check for redundancy (Score:1, Funny)
The solution is data compression (Score:2, Funny)
Re: I need a SB of storage (Score:2, Funny)
Re:We have the prefixes, why not use them? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:a helpful reference page for large numbers (Score:3, Funny)
Re:2010 (Score:2, Funny)
Even Worse ... (Score:3, Funny)