Research Collection – Re-Inventing Storage for the Cloud Era
“One of the challenges for us as a company, and us as an industry, is that many of the technologies we rely on are beginning to get to the point where either they are at the end, or they’re starting to get to the point where you can see the end. Moore’s Law is a well-publicized one and we hit it some time ago. And that’s a great opportunity, because whenever you get that rollover, you get an opportunity to be able do things differently, to have new ways of doing things.”
– Ant Rowstron, Distinguished Engineer and Deputy Lab Director, Microsoft Research Cambridge
It is projected that around 125 zettabytes of data will be generated annually by 2024. Storing this data efficiently