The world is facing the possibility of a new crisis. This time it is not a global economic crisis or a global health crisis. According to the warning of scientists, the name of the new crisis waiting for the world: The global data storage crisis. The situation seems so remarkable that the British press covered it and covered it in detail.
THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SPACE TO STORAGE!
According to the news of the British Daily Mail newspaper; The data globe will grow by 300 percent in 2025 and there isn’t enough space in the ‘cloud’ to store ‘this mind-boggling amount’.
The important warning came from scientists at Aston University. These people are scrambling to come up with a plan that won’t involve building more of the servers that have an impact on the world’s electricity consumption.
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To overcome this problem, the team is developing a new technology that provides surfaces with channels that are approximately 10,000 times the width of a human hair, or less than five nanometers.
Leading the project, Dr. “Building new data centers without developing data storage technologies is not a viable solution. Increasingly, we are at risk of a storage crisis and advanced storage solutions are imperative to keep up with the needs of the modern world,” Matt Derry said in a statement. said.
The world has a digital lifestyle that constantly generates data. According to a report from International Data Corporation (IDC), ‘The result of this increased dependence on data will be a never-ending expansion in the size of the global data globe.’
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Also, the report shows that the estimated capacity in 2019 was 45ZB (zettabytes), but by 2025 this will increase to 175ZB. One zettabyte equals one trillion gigabytes. According to the report, if you could store the entire globe of global data on DVDs, then you’d have a stack of single-layer Blu-ray discs that could take you to the Moon 23 times or circle the Earth 222 times.
The dramatic increase is very close. Derry and his team hope to find a solution before time runs out. Recently joining the Aston University team, Dr. Amit Kumar Sarkar said, “We will leverage advanced polymer chemistry as a way to increase the amount of data that can be stored in storage environments. Increasing the efficiency of existing technologies will significantly reduce the need to build costly and environmentally damaging new mega data centers. The next three years will be crucial.’ said.
THE REMARKABLE LEAP BETWEEN 2019 AND 2020
In 2010, IDC demonstrated that only 2ZB of data was created and replicated worldwide. But that was just three years after Apple launched the first iPhone and just one year after Samsung launched. These two devices probably started the data growth rate we see today. The data shows an incredible increase from 41ZB to 64.2ZB between 2019 and 2020. Probably due to this pandemic. Because people worked from personal devices during pandemic quarantines that caused offices to close.
The same organization that showed the data also estimates that 80 percent of global data will be unstructured by 2025. This seems to be because how and where we consume data has changed and continues to change. The organization divides it into three categories: Endpoints, Edge, and Core.
The organization predicts that data collected at the Edge, which includes servers and data centers in offices through various IoT and sensing devices, will increase by 33 percent annually by 2025, accounting for 22 percent of the total global data globe.