{"id":225,"date":"2007-02-28T15:57:34","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T23:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2007-02-28T15:57:34","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T23:57:34","slug":"storage-growth-of-unstructured-data-fuels-storage-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/storage-growth-of-unstructured-data-fuels-storage-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Storage: Growth of Unstructured Data Fuels Storage Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"

IBM Global Technology Services<\/a> forecast<\/a>s explosive growth in worldwide storage requirements\u00a0in a July 2006 white paper<\/a> called “The Toxic Terabyte<\/strong>: How Data-Dumping Threatens Business Efficiency”.\u00a0 The document is an interesting read and has some statistics, some of which verge on being amazing.<\/p>\n

For example, the paper starts with the observation that in 2006, 26,000 million million transitors will be pumped out by electronics manufacturers worldwide, more they claim, than all the grains of rice grown on earth in 2006.<\/p>\n

The report attributes\u00a0the explosive growth of storage to the\u00a0proliferation of computer transitors and chips that operates on Moore’s Law.\u00a0 Basically there are more chips running, more data being processed, and more data being stored.<\/p>\n

The report\u00a0goes on to report incredible numbers for how fast data will grow, although it doesn’t try to assign any weight to the importance\u00a0to the kinds of data that’s being amassed.\u00a0 For example, billions of processors logging transaction statistics every millisecond might be creating massive amounts of uncompressed historical information, but that data may serve no real purpose.\u00a0 From the report:<\/p>\n

\nIt is projected that just four years from now, the world\u0092s information base will be doubling in size every 11 hours. So rapid is the growth in the global stock of digital data that the very vocabulary used to indicate quantities has had to expand to keep pace. A decade or two ago, professional computer users and managers worked in kilobytes and megabytes. Now schoolchildren have access to laptops with tens of gigabytes of storage, and network managers have to think in terms of the terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) and the petabyte (1,000 terabytes). Beyond those lie the exabyte, zettabyte and yottabyte, each a thousand times bigger than the last.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The toxic<\/em> side of having all of this data is that\u00a0searching through all of it becomes ever more difficult.\u00a0 Even with today’s plummeting storage costs and shrinking physical size of storage units, the report suggests that some analysts are worried that ultimately we will have so much data that we won’t be able to afford or create enough storage devices to hold all of it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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IBM Global Technology Services forecasts explosive growth in worldwide storage requirements\u00a0in a July 2006 white paper called “The Toxic Terabyte: How Data-Dumping Threatens Business Efficiency”.\u00a0 The document is an interesting read and has some statistics, some of which verge on…<\/span><\/p>\n

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