Facebook created an initiative called Open Compute to create open computer architectures, including open source storage architectures.
As cloud-style architectures become more prevalent, we will see a parallel shift from legacy storage to modern, software-defined-storage architectures.
Both companies were innovators in developing digital storage architectures serving particular needs for rich content storage in archiving, digital content libraries, special effects and post production.
That's as sure a bet as there is in technology. (Think voice and visual data.) Which storage architectures win out is a current hot debate among bitheads.
Storage vendors will also have to change their strategies as their customers learn to use the new storage tools and capabilities that modern storage architectures can provide.
Among the capabilities for open compute platforms are erasure codes but also control of HDD array energy use with drive spin-down (like the earlier MAID storage architectures that featured many idle drives).
Whether it is storage systems architectures or storage devices enabling big data applications the growth of content is increasing the amount of large data sets that enterprises must work with.
The development and implementation of new storage and memory architectures, combined with evolved storage system management can play an important role in controlling the growth of data center power use even as the total amount of content in data centers grows.
Whether it is faster direct attached storage products, personal or home cloud storage devices or improved enterprise and archive storage consumer applications storage capacity, architectures and transport speeds will continue to grow and develop.
Overall the IDF gives interesting insights into the future of processors and memory as well as storage technology and interconnection architectures.
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This requires smart silicon, but also rethinking architectures and storage.
It seems clear that solid-state storage will have a growing role in personal computer architectures, although users needing more storage may find flash memory a bit expensive.
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We see significant trends taking place that could impact common practices and architectures for digital storage for many years to come.
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