Digital storage is a key component in the build out and management of on-line data centers.
In order to enable the continued growth of on-line data center services we need to work on three important areas.
The grand-daddy of Internet services is Minitel, the ubiquitous on-line data service created by France Telecom (an arm of the government) in 1978-82.
On-line data centers are increasing their capacity to deal with this increased demand for processing power, communication speeds and digital storage capacity but despite the increases in efficiency of enterprise equipment and software there is a price to pay for universal connectivity and general on-line resources.
Zero watt disk archives provide the benefit of being on-line and keeping the data accessible at all times while sleeping when not in use, thereby keeping power billslow.
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Substations and transformer boxes eventually reduce the power to the 110 volts that toast your muffin in the morning, but the electrical noise on a high-voltage line can destroy data signals immediately.
On-line applications and services have created new sources for expanding data that create new challenges for fast access and fast use of this content.
Raw transaction data is the messy one-line sentence that appears on a bank or credit card statement.
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However even with data center developments such as compression, virtualization and deduplication the costs of on-line storage exceed that of local storage and the performance of on-line storage is significantly less than local storage.
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Data centers are growing at a quick rate to deal with the rapid growth of on-line (or cloud) services and storage.
The growth of information that is available on-line has led to a great number of new businesses and opportunities ranging from cloud storage to content delivery to data analytics.
The data is presented in a semi-logarithmic format: steady growth appears as a straight line on a semi-log chart.
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