THE one consistent theme in the digital world is that growth is a constant. It is estimated that from 2009 to 2020, the size of the digital universe will have increased 44 fold; that is a 41 per cent increase in capacity every year. Storing, locating and extracting value from high volumes of data will become increasingly complex.
As the digitally-enabled business world evolves, the mix of data and its anticipated usages are going to change as well. Already, there is an increased diversity of data types with 80 per cent of today's data being unstructured and the reuse of data is shrinking, with 80 per cent of data never being used after 90 days. However, regulation and compliancy dictates that data is adequately archived for a long period of time, sometimes up to triple digits in number of years.
The way the fallout from data storage is currently handled is massive -- the impact on the environment is one of these factors. Storage already consumes 40 per cent of datacentre power and it is predicted that within 10 years the total energy consumed by storage solutions could increase to more than six times what it is today. Based on these predictions, storage could represent over 75 per cent of the energy consumed within the datacentre and if you consider that 80 per cent of data is never looked at again after three months, storage is a major IT trigger for energy burn-out.
Another fallout is cost and the added expense of managing growing volumes of data. The business critical nature of data is driving up storage management costs by 25 per cent per year, so in the long term it will become the number one cost within many datacentres. Therefore, it's becoming increasingly more important to align the value of data with the capabilities and cost of the storage it is stored on.
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Source: financialexpress-bd.com
By: Ahsen Javed
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