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Enterprise applications by their very nature are big and consume huge amounts of corporate network resources. Particularly storage. Application data is ever growing, and backups, replications and data snapshots all can require large amounts of storage space. As data sets…
Active archiving is the process of tagging and moving infrequently used data from high-performance active storage to more cost-effective storage. The term Active Archiving is most often applied to structured data stored in a relational database but it can also…
Just when people are becoming familiar with the concept of a terrabyte and are starting to see references to petabyte-sized storage systems, the world is moving up to the next level up of storage, the exabyte, that’s 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes. Exabyte are…
IBM’s ‘Toxic Terrabyte’ predictions may be a bit over the top in estimating how quickly today’s storage demands will scale to out-of-control proportions. A more conservative estimate, but one that still indicates robust growth in the industry, was released from The…
IBM Global Technology Services forecasts explosive growth in worldwide storage requirements in a July 2006 white paper called “The Toxic Terabyte: How Data-Dumping Threatens Business Efficiency”. The document is an interesting read and has some statistics, some of which verge on…