This blog talks about the how the amount of data generated is increasing day by data (data-explosion) and also the pace of data generation, which is explained as in 3…
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At both an individual and enterprise level, there has been a move away from hard drives. Racks of hard drives have been surpassed by technologies such as flash storage, cloud, and software-defined storage, which can work faster with lower capital and operating costs. High-capacity flash is a hot trend these days, with most storage capacity expected to be sold in all-flash storage solutions, rather than on disk. Non-volatile memory express (NVMe) technology, used in storage products such as PCI Express (PCIe) solid-state drives (SSDs), is well suited to applications such as real-time, big-data analytics. Rapidly growing, this NVMe market is forecasted to hit US$57 billion by 2020, with a 95% compounded annual growth rate. Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is also expected to bring change to the industry. HAMR uses lasers to heat high-stability media before magnetically recording data, predicted to increase the limit of magnetic recording by more than a factor of 100. This would mean that a digital library of all the books written in the world could be stored on a mere 20 HAMR drives.