Data explosion will cause compliance headache
News According to a report released this week, the amount of data created by emails, digital cameras, keystrokes and so on is set to increase from 161 exabytes in 2006 to 988 exabytes in 2010. Around 20 percent of the 161 exabytes of data created last...
[March 7, 2007, 16:06]
Sun and Storagetek fix on email archiving
News There were 7 exabytes of data in the world in 2000, though only 1.4 were unique -- the rest being duplications. There will be 99.5 exabytes in 2005, 19.9 of which will be unique, he said, citing IDC and Gartner Group.
[January 9, 2003, 8:32]
Knowledge experiences exponential growth
News which pegs the quantity of new information stored in 2002 at 5 exabytes, or 5 quintillion bytes. Still, while large, the 5 exabytes of stored information pales in comparison to the amount of information transmitted electronically in 2002, which the...
[October 29, 2003, 9:00]
Performance Evaluation of Oracle Database 10g on HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA): Proven Performance and Flexibility to Meet Mission-Critical OLTP Requirements
White Papers With over 200,000 customers, Oracle databases are now managing exabytes (millions of terabytes) of data, which will only continue to grow exponentially each year. It is an enormous volume of information - much of it mission-critical, requiring fast...
[August 17, 2007, 10:25]
"Smart Archive for SAP and the Enterprise" a recorded Webcast
White Papers IDC estimates that by 2010, the amount of digital information will grow to 988 exabytes. Every day, 15 petabytes of new information are being generated. The volume, variety and velocity of data and content growth in an organization means that...
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
Custom File Systems as Optimal Solutions for Huge Media Data Archives and Storages
White Papers IDC, a leading market research firm estimates that total amount of stored digital information is around 2.8 Exabytes (2.8 million Terabytes) with tenfold expected growth every five years! During the last decade, volume of industrial video and audio...
[July 10, 2009, 1:51]
Seagate to avoid solid-state drives for now
News Demand for storage in the home is forecast to rise by 80 to 120 exabytes this year, and in the professional market from 70 to 100 exabytes. The chief executive of storage company Seagate said on Tuesday that, while flash memory and solid-state...
[November 5, 2008, 14:09]
Digital universe outstrips storage capability
News According to the report, entitled The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe, the "digital universe" comprised 281 exabytes ( 281 billion gigabytes) in 2007 — 10 percent larger than previous estimations.
[March 11, 2008, 17:41]
Oracle wants to curtail Microsoft advance
News On top of targeting smaller organisations with its database, the company has designed Oracle 10g to be able to handle millions of terabytes of data, or exabytes, for extremely large data warehousing applications.
[November 7, 2003, 11:05]
IBM de-duplicates Tivoli
News According to IDC, 180 exabytes (one exabyte is 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes) of digital content was created, captured or replicated in 2006 and the number is expected to multiply by 10 times to 1,800 exabytes by 2011.
[February 6, 2009, 16:04]
SQL Server 64-bit undercuts RISC rivals
News Although 16 exabytes -- one exabyte being a billion gigabytes -- is more than anyone needs right now, the fact that it can directly address more than the 4Gbyte limitation of 32-bit systems means it can perform database manipulations in memory...
[April 14, 2003, 11:18]
Pros and cons of going 64-bit
News The popularity of running multiple servers as virtual machines on a single physical computer has vastly increased the memory needs of those machines, and even on workstations, memory-intensive graphics and video applications, Computer Aided Design...
[August 21, 2006, 15:10]
The importance of being 64-bit
News The AMD64 chip architecture can address up to 256TB of memory in its current implementations, though this could go up to 2 exabytes in future versions. At the launch of Microsoft's 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 late last...
[May 16, 2005, 17:30]
Sun uncloaks 'virtualised' computing
News This doesn't stop at hundreds of processors," he said, but rather spans all the way up to tens of thousands of CPUs as well as petabytes and exabytes of storage. As previously reported, the N1 project is an attempt to "virtualise" computing...
[February 8, 2002, 14:22]
