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DPic [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, April 7, 2007
17 years ago2,457 views

As it was in Google's leaked Analyst Day powerpoint presentation (http://www.box.net/public/g1892g6s98) Google is working towards infinite storage:
"Store 100% of User Data
With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc).
We already have efforts in this direction in terms of GDrive, GDS, Lighthouse, but all of them face bandwidth and storage constraints today. For example: Firefox team is working on server side stored state but they want to store only URLs rather than complete web pages for storage reasons. This theme will help us make the client less important (thin client, thick server model) which suits our strength vis-a-vis Microsoft and is also of great value to the user.
As we move toward the "Store 100%" reality, the online copy of your data will become your Golden Copy and your local-machine copy serves more like a cache. An important implication of this theme is that we can make your online copy more secure than it would be on your own machine.
Another important implication of this theme is that storing 100% of a user's data makes each piece of data more valuable because it can be access across applications. For example: a user's Orkut profile has more value when it's accessible from Gmail (as addressbook), Lighthouse (as access list), etc."

A new technology which should be available in the next 3-4 years promises to be able to store 1.2 PETABYTES on ONE hard drive.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/17/0051234

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