Could cloud storage be disrupted in the next decade?
Talkat 12th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '20) · 2020-07-13..07-14
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Argues cloud storage faces likely disruption within a decade because flash and HDD are near maturity, tape shipments and vendors shrink, and cloud scale can bootstrap new media. Cites 175 ZB by 2025, HDD iops per TB falling and tape market down to two tape vendors: Fujifilm and Sony. Describes rack-scale disaggregated deployments and Project Silica experiments that store glass archives; proposes fully disaggregated, co-designed hardware/software stacks and new media like silica and DNA.
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