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Storage: Long-Term Low-Cost COLD Storage Solutions

By Dick Weisinger

Recently at the Open Compute Summit, Facebook VP of Engineering, Jay Parikh described how Facebook has rigged together a system based on 10,000 Blu-ray discs that fit into a single cabinet, capable of storing 1 petabyte of data.  Facebook plans

Storage: Engineering Storage Media to last for Millenium

By Dick Weisinger

The history of humans spans backwards in time only a few thousand years and our records about how human ancestors lived beyond more than a few hundred years ago is relatively scant.  While we have an increasingly wide variety of

Storage: The Future is With Software

By Dick Weisinger

IDC reports that the enterprise storage market is shifting to one that is centered around software.  Sales from file- and object-based storage (FOBS) are expected to reach $23 billion in 2013 and to grow to more than $38 billion by

Storage Technology: New Discoveries of Magnetic Material Behavior Could Simplify Storage

By Dick Weisinger

Geoffrey Beach, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at MIT, and graduate students Uwe Bauer and Satoru Emori, recently reported discoveries in the area of magnetism that have significant implications for magnetic storage. Beach’s team discovered a method for

Storage: Global Storage Sales See Rapid Growth but Tempered by Technologies like Virtualization and Compression

By Dick Weisinger

The worldwide storage market increased by 3.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013, compared to 2012 fourth quarter results.  The global enterprise storage market is expected to grow at 4.1 percent annually through 2017 when it will reach $42.5