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Angus Kidman: Mammoth growth in storage volumes is a fact of life, but even so it's helpful to pause occasionally and try and work out whether our information strategies have fallen hopelessly out of step with the pace of technological growth and changes in costs.
I was reminded of this during the week while hanging out at the Hitachi Data System SAN Technology Centre in Odawara and talking to Hubert Yoshida, HDS' chief technology officer. Yoshida predicts that storage volumes are about to cross an important threshold.
"We expect that within the next three to five years we will have a customer with an exabyte of data," Yoshida said. "Today we have customers with close to 100 petabytes."
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I was reminded of this during the week while hanging out at the Hitachi Data System SAN Technology Centre in Odawara and talking to Hubert Yoshida, HDS' chief technology officer. Yoshida predicts that storage volumes are about to cross an important threshold.
"We expect that within the next three to five years we will have a customer with an exabyte of data," Yoshida said. "Today we have customers with close to 100 petabytes."