The Next Frontier for Packet Switching
May 12, 2009 by
Filed under Articles, Daily Tech
Enterprise IT divisions are creaking under the strain of the massive and growing amounts of data they need to archive. The sheer volume of data only increases the chances that something will be lost, corrupted or exposed. One solution for efficient, secure and reliable data storage may lie in information dispersal.
Packet switching, in short, is a method to deliver data across a computer network connection. The impact of packet switching cannot be understated, as it essentially makes today’s Internet function.
Looking to the future, packet switching is on the precipice of impacting and disrupting another technology — storage — which is gaining more and more attention in the enterprise as the amount of digital data that needs to be stored grows exponentially.
Over the past few years, the nature of data that needs to be stored has changed from smaller files and structured applications to larger, digital content, media and imaging. In addition to this change in data type, there is simply more data than there used to be — IDC estimated that the digital universe exceeded more than 281 exabytes in 2007 and will grow tenfold by 2011. This rapid data growth means major management and storage headaches for larger enterprises. The more data — and the more large data — there is, the more important efficient storage becomes.
What’s the aspirin for this ever-present problem? Look to packet switching slices of virtualized data — also known as “information dispersal” — to revolutionize the way that digital content is stored and delivered.
[Source: TechNewsWorld.com]
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