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Big Data: The Bar for ‘Big’ is Continually Rising
Today’s world of Big Data is one that involves the processing of huge amounts of data. Today, systems that are petabyte-plus in size qualify as ‘Big Data’. But the bar that defines big is rising at an accelerating rate. It wasn’t that long ago when the upper limits of data storage ranged in the size of terabytes, and before that, gigabyte systems seemed incredibly huge.
Information growth is forecast to increase by a factor of 50 times over the next ten years by Canadian Bank CIBC. A separate and similar prediction by IDC is for data volumes to increase 44 times from 2009 to 2020.
Chris Gladwin, founder and vice chairman of the object storage vendor Cleversafe, said that “you think of it as a pretty big system today, but in 10 years, you won’t even be able to buy systems that small. Today, a petabyte is half a cabinet, but you go out 10 years, and that’s like part of a server. It won’t even qualify as an enterprise-scale system… A decade from now, when you look at the capacity-optimized segment of enterprise storage — which is the big enterprise storage systems — we’re projecting that zero percent of the market will be systems that are a petabyte or less.”
