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27 Billion Gigabytes to be Archived by 2010

Posted by timothy on from the if-not-sooner dept.

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."

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  1. E-mail growth... by Urger · · Score: 5, Funny

    E-mail growth accounts for much of that figure.

    They should have that looked at. A good dermatologist could remove it.
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  2. 2010 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    All these archives are yours except Europa. ATTEMPT NO WRITINGS THERE.

  3. Re:We have the prefixes, why not use them? by mincognito · · Score: 4, Funny

    Note to science and tech journalists: please stop stringing together "millions" and "billions" in an attempt to make the numbers seem large, impressive, and incomprehensible. Scientific notation and SI exist for a reason.
    Exactly! For the thousandth time, let's cut out the exaggerated and sensational writing Slashdot! If I had a dollar for every sensational headline I've read here, not to mention the gazillion overstated comments I read here per day, I'd be a billionaire by now!
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  4. Re:We have the prefixes, why not use them? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, you'd only be a thousand millionaire.

  5. will someone think of the kids! by metamorfoza · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it bother you that much that these journalists want to make it easier for the general public to understand how big data storage they are talking about?

    I agree. However, I would go even further and instead of using geekish bytes and bits we should use something like 400 billions of mp3s. You know, so that myspace user out there can understand TFA. They clearly have interest in this sort of news.