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Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Storage Sales Expand Rapidly

An indication of how quickly data is being stored and indexed.  An indicator of future needs for Big Data and analytics capabilities.   Increased risk of data losses?  Increased need for better standards and organization and metadata methods,  Knowing your data as an asset.

In CWorld:
More than 28 billion gigabytes of storage shipped last quarter
Worldwide data storage hardware sales saw a boon in the first quarter of this year, with a 41.4% leap over the same quarter in 2014.

In all, 28.3 exabytes (or 28 billion gigabytes) of capacity shipped out during the quarter, according to IDC's Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Market Update released today.... " 

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