Tape Primed For Rise Of Secondary Storage
StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, September 29,2023
As the widespread impact of Covid-19 eases, new concerns have emerged. These include geo-political tensions, global warming, a fragile supply chain, prolonged inflation, higher interest rates, and rising transportation, health care, food and energy prices.
All of which have painted a choppy macro-economic picture. Not surprisingly, these trends have also caused storage demand and forecasts to fluctuate. Current growth projections of at least 25% annually suggest a doubling of data stored every three years.
Zettabyte era storage demands are driving advanced solutions to effectively contain petascale and exascale requirements. In parallel the unquenchable thirst for IT services has placed energy usage, carbon emissions and the overall environmental impact of data centers squarely in the bull's eye for most organizations to address.