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Article: The incredible shrinking petabyte: how compression technologies are helping store more data in less space.(Storage Networking)
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- Computer Technology Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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The Internet brought with it a round-the-clock business environment where Web traffic, e-mail and e-commerce transactions drive data creation, storage and business continuity requirements that continuously change. Traditionally, large organizations dealt with the data deluge by simply buying massive storage libraries, filling up large data warehouses with wall-to-wall archival solutions to hold and manage it all.
But just as technology advancement and dropping manufacturing costs eventually brought the power of refrigerator-sized computers of the 1950s to desktop PCs of the 1980s, storage hardware and media are rapidly shrinking and becoming ubiquitous to every ...