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Intel: humanity will soon have nowhere to store data

With a sensational statement was made director of a research laboratory of Intel’s Jim Heald (Jim Held). In his view, the civilization made by increasing the amount of digital data at a rate that soon there will be shortage of recording devices to store them. “Even now created a huge amount of data – more than we can keep” – said during his Heald speech at a conference in Brussels.

«We have reached zettabaytovogo range (trillions of gigabytes), and soon will come yottabaytovaya era, when the amount of information exceeds yottabayt – a quadrillion gigabytes” – said the professor. Such rapid growth of digital information, Jim Held, binds to the increase in the number of Internet services, the proliferation of mobile phones with high-quality video cameras and the growing needs of corporate information systems.

examples that led Held, speak for themselves: «Walmart (the largest U.S. retail chain), adds a billion records per minute in its databases. YouTube video service stores more data than all the commercial TV channels broadcast for a year. Large Hadron Collider may generate terabytes of data per second. ”


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