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Hi! My name is Bill Chamberlin. While I am employed as a Principal Analyst at IBM, this blog represents my own work on my own time. Any opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent IBM's views or opinions.

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November 28, 2011

"The amount of information created and replicated will surpass 1.9 zettabytes (1.8 trillion gigabytes) in 2011, growing by almost nine times in just five years"

— Found in an IDC Press Release: IDC Expects “Big Data” to Drive the Next Wave of Investments in Business Analytics for CIOs in Asia/Pacific

7:25am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyCXq1La

(Notes: 6)

September 21, 2011

"Racetrack memory, a solid-state breakthrough technology, is a potential replacement for hard drives and successor to flash in handheld devices. A storage device with no moving parts, it uses the spin of electrons to access and move data to atomically precise locations on nanowires 1,000 times finer than a human hair. This technique combines the high performance and reliability of flash with the low cost and high capacity of the hard-disk drive. It could allow electronic manufacturers to develop devices that store much more information — as much as a factor of 100 times greater — while using less energy than today’s designs."

— Quote found in an IBM press release titled: “IBM Survey: Nearly Half of IT Decision Makers Favor Solid-State Storage Technology

1:01pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXy9m-p20

(Notes: 48)

Filed under: storage ibm technology racetrack-memory research nanotechnology nanowires

July 22, 2011

"Businesses in every industry are looking to the future of storage and data management as we face a problem springing from the very core of our success – managing the massive amounts of data we create on a daily basis. From banking systems to MRIs and traffic sensors, our day-to-day lives are engulfed in data. But, it can only be useful if it is effectively stored, analyzed and applied, and businesses and governments have relied on smarter technology systems as the means to manage and leverage the constant influx of data and turn it into valuable insights."

— Quote by Bruce Hillsberg, director of storage systems, IBM Research – Almaden. Quote found in IBM Press release “Made in IBM Labs: Researchers Demonstrate Breakthrough Storage Performance for Big Data Applications”