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pectra Logic has announced the publication of
Digital Data Storage Outlook, the company’s
fourth annual report on the data storage
industry. The report examines the future of data
management, usage and storage, and details the
current state of the industry and the opportunities
that organisations have to preserve their digital
assets indefinitely.
Storage and media manufacturers, application
developers and users will gain insight into the future of
the data storage industry after reviewing the report.
“This is a landmark year for Spectra as we celebrate
the company’s 40th anniversary,” said Spectra CEO
Nathan Thompson.
“This report provides a high-level snapshot of the
trends that will influence technological advancements
in the data storage industry, and the workflows that will
impact the way the world uses and preserves its digital
information for the long term.”
Diversity of workflows are driving users toward a new
model for data storage.
The report outlines what this ideal next storage
architecture will look like and explains why a modern
two-tier approach is essential to preserving data in the
booming age of ‘keep everything, delete nothing.’
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Digital Data Storage Outlook 2019 also provides an
overview of the storage technologies that define
long-term storage today and those that will impact the
industry tomorrow, including flash, disk, tape, optical
and cloud. Highlights from the report include:
• The impact on the storage industry as supply-side
constraints from flash manufacturers have ended
and all are now shipping 3D NAND in volume.
This resulted in a 50% reduction of flash prices
mostly occurring toward the end of 2018 with the
potential of more cost reductions to come
in 2019
• A predicted aggressive decrease in the aggregate
shipped capacity of consumer magnetic disk as
flash disk takes over much of that space on both the
high end and low end
• Tape remains a viable and cost-effective storage
technology for long-term data retention with a long
roadmap. Of all the storage mediums available,
tape technology has the greatest potential for
capacity improvement
• The new two-tier paradigm focuses on the usage
of the data rather than the technology. It includes
the primary or project tier, where raw data streams
need to be captured rapidly or edited; and the
perpetual tier, where data assets are accessed,
shared and stored indefinitely. Data moves
seamlessly between the two tiers for maximum
user benefit.
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