All the big storage companies are developing products to play in the bigdata space because of the storage capacity growth as well as the growth in support services for bigdata.
The demand rises so fast that some bigdata haulers increase their capacity tenfold every year--a millionfold increase in six years, with no end in sight.
This effort will take time, but the impact of developing a superior capacity to take advantage of BigData will confer enhanced competitive advantage over the long term and is therefore well worth the investment to create this capability.
Helping both buyers and sellers of bigdata solutions is the squeezing of more data into less space and Toshiba has announced this week its largest capacity disk drive to date, capable of holding four terabytes.