Thin client devices depending upon on-line applications and on-line storage to do work and require constant connectivity.
The higher costs and higher latency of on-line storage will likely drive continued efforts to create local storage options for tablets, despite the architectural difficulties with iPad connectivity.
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Thus the battle between local and on-line storage continues to drive a new generation of enterprise storage for the cloud as well as external local storage for mobile devices.
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On-line storage is behind remote backup and disaster recovery, on-line content sharing and video streaming, among many other applications currently popular with mobile as well as home-based smart connected devices.
Continuing to reduce the costs of on-line storage will require the management of stored content to optimize availability depending upon frequency of use and use of commodity storage and other data center equipment.
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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Back several months ago we looked at how a company called Backblaze was finding creative ways to get HDDs through retail channels for their on-line storage business during the depths of the Thailand flood HDD shortages.
Storage capacity requirements are growing due to the proliferation of video cameras and sensor networks, user generated content and its use in social networks, content distribution systems as well as on-line storage to support backups and disaster recovery.
HDDs provide the majority of low latency mass storage in most enterprise storage environments and a denser storage device that requires less power to run will help reduce the costs of on-line and enterprise storage even lower than it is today.
This will be a benefit to tablet and other thin client devices that depend upon access to inexpensive on-line services, including storage.
Data centers are growing at a quick rate to deal with the rapid growth of on-line (or cloud) services and storage.
Thus affordable flash-based mobile devices will have limited storage capacity and are most useful for a use and delete or on-line access thin client use models.
It is no excuse either for the HP board to have gambled its future on growth by acquisition to stem the way its old-line core businesses, like storage and enterprise software, were collapsing.
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.
Digital storage is a key component in the build out and management of on-line data centers.
Thus encrypted drive key management can be offered as an on-line service, eliminated the cost and complexity of implementing key management for laptops and other storage devices.
The two new personal offerings come only weeks after Iomega leaned into the enterprise storage market with a line of network-attached storage servers that are aimed at basic storage and backup applications on corporate networks.
The technology behind all types of storage technologies continues to develop, enabling the devices that we love to use and the on-line services that we have come to expect.
Storage in the cloud is a great thing and is a key element enabling many applications including on-line backup and collaborative work as well as social networking.
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.
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