Developing Trends In Data Storage And Protection
Continuity Central, January 4th, 2023
Steve Santamaria, CEO, Folio Photonics, comments on developments that he expects to see in the data storage market during 2023.
Data storage will take on global warming
As the world continues to strive toward Net Zero, additional industries will come under the microscope. One industry heavily influenced by this will be the data storage industry. By 2025, data centers / centres will consume >3 percent of the world's electricity and storage can make up anywhere from 10-30 percent of a data center's overall energy consumption. When there is a specific industry accounting for >1 percent of global electricity consumption, people start to take notice and ask what can be done to lessen the power burden. This will create an industry-wide push toward sustainable storage technologies that are more energy-efficient than legacy hardware.