Data Explosion
In the current technological age, this word is familiar even to uneducated people. Whatever digital things we use, they always have data.
Data is also the good morning message we send to a friend when we wake up early. From the mobile phone we use all the time to the most sophisticated technology, this data storage is a must. Companies store data relating to hundreds of millions of people from time to time.
It is stored in large supercomputers. Now this is all because scientists predict that by 2025 this data will increase by 300%. At the same time, it is warned that a crisis may occur if all the data cannot be saved.
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), the data warehouse extension is a program that should never stop. The company estimates that the global digital storage capacity was 45 zettabytes (ZB) in 2019 and needs to increase to 175 ZB by 2025. A zettabyte is equal to one million gigabytes (GB).
If all the data in the world were stored on DVD… do you know how much it would take? If you list them one by one, you can line up 23 times from the earth to the moon. Between 2019 and 2020 alone, the size of the data warehouse increased from 41 ZB to 64.2 ZB. IDC said at the time that due to the Corona lockdown, all employees had to work from home with their own devices.
New Storage Technology
Huge computers to store data… you need a huge amount of space to store it. Computers require a lot of electricity to run. Researchers at Aston University have announced that they have developed a new technology to solve these difficult problems.
He said that a new type of polymer with a thickness of 5 nanometers had been prepared. This is just 10,000th the thickness of a hair on our head. According to the researchers, computers made from these polymers can store an incredible amount of data in a very small space.
