Nashville Technology Blog (5/14/10)
This morning at the CIO Council (http://www.ciocouncil-usa.org/) meeting, we had the distinct pleasure to hear from Hubert Yoshida, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Office at Hitachi Data Systems. Yoshida is well know within the storage industry, and his blog was recently ranked among the top 10 most influential within the storage industry by Network World. Hitachi is currently spending about $4 Billion per year on Research and Development.
Hitachi is doing some interesting work in storage, but what I found really interesting were the statistics of the industry.
- 8% IT cost growth in data center per year
- 7-10k to move TB of data to storage
- Structured data (databases, etc.) growing 32% per year
- Unstructured data (application, content, etc.) 63% growth per year
- Content depots are growing at 121% per year
- 60-80% of data doesn’t need to be backed up
Overall, I got a feeling that we all need to understand data better from an IT perspective. Intel’s Nehalem is quickly changing processing speed (see blog post from November 09). Grid computing is causing servers to scale up not out. Hitachi is now making storage scale up. Pretty interesting theory.
CY Fenton, SVP over IT at Books-a-Million had a great observation that “Hitachi is abstracting of the I/O”.
Exabyte storage is quickly approaching as we fill up petabyte after petabyte and to keep up with this, we all need to learn Econometrics.
