The simple part is to see that computation, storage and communication are moving in the direction of cost free.
The prices of computation, storage and communication drop 30%, 50% and 66% per year, respectively, at a constant performance.
The large business services and finance sector grew by 0.9%, but there were falls in transport, storage and communication - down by 1.5%.
The services survey includes transport, storage and communication, financial intermediation, business services, personal services, computing and IT, and hotels and restaurants, but does not include the retail sector.
Technology and financial companies that rely on data centers for information storage and communication (companies such as Microsoft or Goldman Sachs) need to be especially careful about minimizing the cooling expenses associated with these operations.
Other factors that will increase storage capacity growth are the creation and sharing of user generated content and the growth of machine to machine communication (and thus information storage) such as smart grid networks, video surveillance, big science in astronomy and physics and other emerging automated users of storage capacity.
Apotheker has a vision of the world that is coherent and, to the minds of many, true: Many small mobile and desktop devices at the edge, connected to a core with huge amounts of computing, data storage, data analysis, and communication, operating in real time.
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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.
These routes are changing rapidly reflecting the often short-lived global communication patterns and longer term storage traffic.
With the advent of video communication apps like Skype, cloud storage options like Google Drive and Dropbox, time management programs like Basecamp and TimeFox, and a variety of other digital business solutions, making the home or local cafe your office is easier than ever.
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