Several news articles in the past week are responding to reports about the continued skyrocketing growth of unstructured data, and the technologies that are coming up to meet this new set of demands under today’s economic circumstances.
Here are a few of the articles that jumped out at us:
Processor
Storage Essentials – George Crump, Storage Switzerland
NetworkWorld
Thinking Outside the Storage Box – Joanne Cummings
InternetNews
Some Bright Spots in the Storage Market Outlook – Drew Robb
As we’ve often mentioned, a combination of solutions is called for when it comes to capacity optimization, one of which is content aware compression, such as that offered by my company Ocarina Networks. Given the state of the economy and everyone’s focus on cost savings, we have no doubt that this trend will pick up in 2009 –dealing with the costs of growing data by having it take 90% less space to actually store is a win-win all around.
