Activescale cold storage for enterprise, webscale and hyperscale deep archives
Relentless digital data growth is inevitable as data has become critical to all aspects of human life and it promises to play a much greater role in the future. The amount of data created over the next three years will exceed the total amount of data created over the past 30 years. Most of this data is piling up as archival and cold data waiting to have its potential value unlocked. This accelerated transformation has been increased by the global COVID-19 pandemic, which caused an upsurge in working-from-home, relying heavily on internet-based applications and video communication in an “everything digital” work environment. Nearly 80% of all data is archival or cold with most being stored in the traditional file format, which is facing scaling limits, and the relatively new, fast-growing object format which provides limitless scaling.
This enormous growth is the product of generational and new internet-based applications including surveillance, cloud and edge computing, high-performance computing (HPC), the Internet of Things(IoT), social media, entertainment and many more.
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