DATA CENTRE PREDICTIONS
move from on-premise storage to large
centralised clouds run by experts with
real storage expertise.
The good news is that this will facilitate
and fuel our next industrial revolution.
Take one example, autonomous vehicles
(AV). Currently, autonomous vehicles are
trained to gather specific data about a
subset of their external context.
By moving data storage off-premise,
costs can be dramatically reduced,
meaning engineers can more easily design
algorithms that teach AVs to learn just as
humans do, by capturing all the data in
their surrounding environment, increasing
data storage per hour from 500GB to 5TB.
As data proliferates and storage costs get
cheaper, we’ll also see streaming services
start designing hyper personalised
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customer experiences. Netflix is projected
to spend US$15bn on content in 2019 and
production, storylines, settings and talent
are also of course driven by data.
OUR DATA
STORAGE
REQUIREMENTS
ARE ONLY SET TO
INCREASE OVER
THE COMING
YEARS, AT AN
UNPRECEDENTED
PACE AND SCALE.
Safeguarding your future
Just as data centres rely on an abundance
of cheap, reliable, electric power, we have
to start thinking about data storage in
a similar way. Like electricity, the need
for storage just keeps growing and data
centres are finding it increasingly difficult
to keep up with the demand.
Specialised cloud storage providers can
operate at an enormous scale and can be far
more economical than on-premises storage.
Rather than relying on huge vendors which
can often charge excessive egress fees,
businesses should also look to independent
cloud storage providers to future proof
their business – having access to storage
solutions at a low price is fundamental for
any scaling business that will inevitably see
a significant increase in data generation. ◊
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