Top 5 remarkable trends in online and desktop storage
As the result of his 6 month research into various storage trends, including a thorough analysis of recent offerings and interviews with many storage experts, IT Reporter’s storage expert Greg Thompson has compiled this convenient list of the most significant trends in online and desktop storage.
1: Self-learning storage area networks become inevitable
As the volume of stored data keeps increasing, human moderation becomes impossible. Artificial intelligence will ease this burden, by automatically removing unimportant data. Early evidence of its merits are shown by Twitter, which won back 5% of their storage capacity when their AI system removed all tweets describing a visit to the bathroom. Furthermore, Google is now developing a new system to manage its data collection – an early prototype is named Skynet.
2: Online storage enhances the human mind
The modern society creates an increasing overload of information. But, now that Apple has invented the iThink brain implants that integrate Apple devices with your deepest soul, it will soon be possible to store and share all your thoughts online. Especially for the elderly, an online copy of earlier memories will be a great life improvement, but will fuel world-wide controversy regarding Apple’s commercial exploitation of such data.
3: Uncle John finally stops using floppy disks for backups
After my nephew Paul argued for weeks with him last March, uncle John is finally ready to sign up for an online storage subscription, that will replace his collection of 32,817 floppy disks, that was occupying most of his living room, his wife’s half of the bed, all of the garage and 75% of the kitchen closets. The rest of this year will probably be spent to talk him out of personally pulling a cable to the nearest datacenter.
4: Further development of SSD technology slows down
Although many of us hoped to see the hard disk be replaced by a new and much faster generation of storage devices, the current state of Soft Storage Device (SSD) technologies is best described as depressing. R&D departments at various companies such as Toshiba, Sony and LG have failed miserably at their attempts to store 100 TB on high-quality York ham and Wagyu beef. Thinking out of the box has clearly not been fruitful in this case.
5: Next-generation data deduplication simplifies life for everyone
Based on the growing integration of global data collections, it will soon be possible to deduplicate data on a global scale. This will help to dramatically reduce the number of stupid questions, silly forum posts, and superfluous tutorials. This means that if you post very common information on your weblog, for example how your cat was impregnated by aliens, the data will be merged automatically with existing posts, using the upcoming IEEE standard for Unique Data Storage (UDS).
