The future of storage and how data volumes are driving change [Q&A]

There have been rapid increases in storage capacity in recent years, but the way the technology is used is largely unchanged. We still load data from storage into memory, process it, and write out any changes. But as storage grows into petabytes this model will become harder to sustain. The future of storage will require abstraction layering and heterogeneous computing, allowing for scale, but reducing over-sophistication. To find out more about what storage will look like in future, we spoke to Tong Zhang, co-founder and chief scientist at ScaleFlux. BN: There seems to be a dichotomy of storage capacity growing… [Continue Reading]