Throughout the history of the development of human civilization, the way of information recording has been changing along with the development of human beings. From the ancient knotting of records to the current information storage, the way of information recording has been driving human progress.
In the past 30 years, data storage technology has undergone earth-shaking changes. From PC storage to today’s autonomous driving and drones, the data storage methods around us have undergone fundamental changes, which have changed our work, life and The way of entertainment, mankind is rapidly entering a new era in the data age.
There is no doubt that the storage of data plays a vital role in all aspects of human life. Digital transformation has become the most talked-about topic. In the next decade, the power of data will surely bring us unlimited changes.
Demographic dividend has disappeared, data dividend has arrived
With the increasing maturity of the Internet, the growth rate of basic netizens has slowed down greatly. my country's demographic dividend is gradually disappearing, but on the basis of a huge population, the data dividend is coming.
IDC predicts that by 2025, the global data circle will expand to 163ZB (1ZB equals 1 trillion GB), which is equivalent to ten times the 16.1ZB data generated in 2016. These data will release a unique user experience and many new business opportunities.
In the "Data Age 2025" white paper released by IDC, IDC predicts five important development trends of future data, which will further strengthen the important role of data in changing the world and changing lives:
1. The transformation from business data to life-critical data. Data that was once isolated, out of reach, and underutilized has now become a necessity in our society and personal lives. IDC predicts that by 2025, nearly 20% of the data in the global data circle will become key data affecting daily life, and nearly 10% of it will become ultra-critical data.
2. Embedded systems and Internet of Things (IoT). Networked digital devices are gradually replacing independent analog devices and will generate a large amount of data, and these large amounts of data in turn give us the opportunity to improve and improve our systems and processes in previously unimaginable ways.
3. Mobile and real-time data. More and more data must be immediately available, no matter when and where people need it. At present, all walks of life around the world are experiencing "digital transformation" driven by this demand.
4. The cognitive/artificial intelligence (AI) system changes the landscape. The massive emergence of data has given birth to a series of brand-new technologies, such as machine learning, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence (collectively referred to as cognitive systems), which have transformed data analysis from uncommon and retrospective practices into strategic decisions And the proactive drivers of action. Cognitive systems can greatly improve the frequency, flexibility and immediacy of data analysis in various industries, environments and applications.
5. Security has become an important foundation. All kinds of data from new sources will bring new loopholes to private and sensitive information. Nowadays, the large amount of data that is continuously generated needs to be secured, and the data that is actually secured is very few. There is a significant gap between them, and this gap will continue to expand. This is a reality in a data-driven world .
It can be said that as the amount of data increases, the value of data will become greater and greater. Business leaders must focus on the data. Only by making full use of those vital data can they bring positive benefits to the enterprise. , Meaningful influence can exert surging momentum in digital transformation. Business leaders need to realize that the era of data dividend has arrived.
How to take the "treasure" correctly for the "worries" of happiness?
The value of data has now received more and more attention. In the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the term "big data" was also included in the report. The report proposed to "promote the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and the real economy" Deep integration". In other words, it is necessary to implement advanced technologies such as big data into actual industry applications and business scenarios to give full play to the role and value of big data.
At present, with the advent of the intelligent age, the amount of data is increasing exponentially. This is the current status of the data world today. The increase in computing power has caused a dramatic change in the speed of data generation compared to before, which has affected our data collection, management, processing and delivery capabilities, which makes our data more complex and storage more complex.
Take the status quo of commercial air travel as an example: Today’s aviation systems are very complex and can collect a variety of data, including aircraft engines, weather, wings, sensors, etc. The increase in data will naturally bring more analytical value, but Such a complex and interdependent system is actually relatively fragile. Once a small problem occurs in any part of the system, it will trigger a domino effect.
Such data incidents are not only about goodwill, but also about life and death. The emergence of super-important data forces companies to continue to develop and deploy advanced data storage technologies to provide extremely high reliability, bandwidth and availability, to achieve a more secure system, and to implement new business practices to reduce the risk of transferring and weakening responsibilities .
Data protection starts from the bottom, Seagate fully deploys the data era
Data storage involves all aspects, and as the lowest storage medium for storing data, it plays the most important role. No matter how the data is used in the future, storing the current data is undoubtedly the first and most critical step.
IDC predicts that in order to keep up with the "data age 2025" forecast, the memory capacity of all media types (HDD, flash memory, tape, optical and DRAM) shipped in the next four years (2017-2020) must exceed the memory capacity of the past 10 years 5.5 The sum of ZB shipments.
As a world-renowned storage solution provider, Seagate has always focused on providing customers with the most professional storage services. With long-term investment in research and development, Seagate has now provided customers with the best storage solutions in different areas of storage.
IDC predicts that in order to store the 163ZB of data that is expected to be created in 2025, approximately 16 billion sets of 12TB enterprise-level HDDs with the largest capacity currently available are needed. Nowadays, Seagate has very mature products in the enterprise market, with full coverage of the low-end and mid-range product lines. According to the different needs of customers, Seagate has also launched green and energy-saving hard drives and hard drives for high-performance computing.
At this year’s An Expo, Seagate also brought the world’s first artificial intelligence video surveillance hard drive "SkyHawk AI" to security customers. It is understood that the hard drive has unprecedented bandwidth and processing capabilities and supports management around the clock. , Data-intensive workloads, can analyze and record images from multiple high-definition cameras at the same time.
At the same time, IDC predicts that by 2025, embedded data will account for nearly 20% of all data. Embedded data sources are extremely wide, such as security equipment, smart meters, chip cards, etc. In this field, Seagate is also working with partners Together, provide customers with professional storage services to meet changing industry needs.
IDC research also predicts that from 2017 to 2025, the storage capacity of all media types must exceed 19 ZB to meet storage needs. Among them, about 58% of the capacity comes from HDD, and 30% comes from flash memory technology.
In terms of SSDs, Seagate also has a very complete product layout. At present, Seagate can provide SAS solid-state drives up to 60TB, as well as the world’s fastest 8T Nytro XP7200 NVME solid-state drive with a storage speed of up to 10GB/s and the world’s most dense M.2 enterprise-class solid state drive--Nytro XM1440 M.2 NVME solid state drive.
Recently, Seagate has also designed a cost-effective Nytro XF1230 SATA solid state drive specifically for cloud server applications. This product is an affordable enterprise-level solid state drive solution designed to enhance and improve service quality and enhance customer experience. The SATA storage interface can meet the requirements of high performance and reliability without interrupting the traditional storage infrastructure, and without additional investment in software and hardware.
Ms. Sun Dan, Global Vice President of Seagate Technology and President of Asia Pacific and China, said: "The importance of data to enterprises is self-evident. In the era of big data, if enterprises are better at data mining, analysis and management, they will have the opportunity. Seize business opportunities in the trend of big data. Seagate will continue to apply its own unique know-how and technology to help companies get more value from data in the future data world."