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27 Billion Gigabytes to be Archived by 2010
Lucas123 writes "According to a Computerworld survey of IT managers, data storage projects are the No. 2 project priority for corporations in 2008, up from No. 4 in 2007. IT teams are looking into clustered architectures and centralized storage-area networks as one way to control capacity growth, shifting away from big-iron storage and custom applications. The reason for the data avalanche? Archive data. In the private sector alone electronic archives will take up 27,000 petabytes (27 billion gigabytes) by 2010. E-mail growth accounts for much of that figure."
Storage@home!? That's hilarious. I thought that was a joke at first... Sounds like a good alternative to spending more money on the project just to store data.
The worrying thing here is not that you are being completely retarded (Last time i checked 1 exabyte arrays were a little bigger than an iPod) but you actually want to buy an iPod.