Portal:Storage
From Wikibon
Welcome to the Storage portal. Estimates vary but it’s well documented that spending on storage hardware, software and services easily exceeds $50B worldwide each year. Storage has always been and continues to be a critical component of the information infrastructure as data and information are the lifeblood of organizations.
The objective of this portal is to provide information that fosters excellence in storage practices and leads various user communities to improve people’s lives, both in business and consumer settings. Ultimately, we hope to accelerate the adoption of and improve the application of storage technologies and services.
...that as much as 10 exabytes of information will be created in 2006 on print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media.
...that 1,000 exabytes equals 1 zettabyte and that 1,000 zettabytes equals 1 yottabyte?
...that a googol is a number equal to a 1 followed by 100 zeros and expressed 10100? This concept was introduced by U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner (1878-1955).
...that in September 1956, IBM announced the first commercial disk drive, inside the RAMAC 305 computer system, with 5MB of capacity on fifty 24-inch diameter platters. The RAMAC 350 disk unit was priced at $7,800 per megabyte.
