Stories about: Exabyte

Cisco as expected this week ushered in the new era of its Carrier Ethernet routers with an edge system designed to scale to 6.4Tbps.

A white paper released Tuesday from International Data (IDC) revised earlier estimates by the research firm to show that by 2011, the amount of electronic data created and stored will grow 10 times the 180 exabytes that existed in 2006, reflecting a compound annual growth rate of almost 60 per cent.

As the volume of Internet traffic grows explosively, driven by factors like rampant demand for online video, a new question is arising: Who will get the bill for the mega-sized data-pipes of the future?

Consumer and corporate use of the Internet could overload the current capacity and lead to brown-outs in two years unless backbone providers invest billions of dollars in new infrastructure, according to a study released Monday.

Are you ready for Internet storage? I mean, would you even consider tapping capacity that doesn't come from a pile of storage devices in your datacenter but instead originates somewhere in the cloud?

As part of the IT team at the Virginia State Police department in the U.S., Lt. Pete Fagan's job is to ensure that criminal investigators, police officers in the field and other authorities get the most accurate, timely and detailed crime-related information possible. Crime never stops, so the data volumes are huge, dynamic and getting bigger every day.

Have you read "The Expanding Digital Universe"? It's a study, commissioned by EMC and put together by IDG analyst group, IDC, on the amount of digital data that we can expect to see in the next few years.

As part of the IT team at the Virginia State Police department, Lt. Pete Fagan's job is to ensure that criminal investigators, police officers in the field and other authorities get the most accurate, timely and detailed crime-related information possible. Crime never stops, so the data volumes are huge, dynamic and getting bigger every day. Criminal records often stretch back decades and include source material from countless systems in myriad formats. Multimedia content is a growing necessity. Metadata, a new necessity, is gobbling up precious disk space. Storage capacity, as you might imagine, is an ongoing problem for the department.

Executives of Brocade Communications Systems say their acquisition strategy has given the company access to an estimated US$7.2 billion market in 2008 for its storage hardware, software and services technology, four times the market it serves today.

In 2010, the amount of digital information created and copied worldwide will rise six fold to a staggering 988 exabytes. This is a compound annual growth rate of 57 percent.

Of the products we've tested, Arkeia Network Backup had the longest lists of supported operating-system clients and storage devices and methods, a testament to Arkeia's background as an early open source backup application, based on Linux.