Delivering the Most Sustainable, Cost-Effective, Highly Scalable Mass Storage System
PREFACE:
Data creation is on an unprecedented growth trajectory as digital data has become the most-valuable asset for most companies. The insatiable AI era is in full swing demanding advanced solutions to effectively contain escalating petascale and exascale storage requirements. Growth projections for data stored worldwide suggest the ~ 25 – 30% CAGR could continue, doubling the amount of data stored approximately every three years. In time AI should markedly improve storage efficiencies keeping growth rates in check or possibly slowing them. This report examines the requirement for a “missing tier” between operational storage and deep archive filling the gap for data that is no longer hot but requires timely (active archive) and unpredictable (dynamic archive) access capabilities. It explores the business and technical drivers behind this requirement, evaluates existing storage technologies, and outlines the characteristics needed for a next-generation secondary storage platform as storage requirements are fundamentally changing.
Satisfying the missing tier has become the new frontier for data storage.
