Databases in Outer Space: Foley on Data

The Big Themes:



A lot of exciting things happening: Gartner is
estimating that 75% of databases will be migrated to the cloud
or be launched in the cloud by the end of next year.


Big Data startup Ocient: Just raised $40
million in Series B to fund work on ingesting data on exabyte
scale.


IDC forecast: What they call the “Enterprise
Datasphere” is growing 2X faster than the “Consumer
Datasphere.”


Putting databases into outer space: If you’re
storing your digital assets in satellites, maybe then physical
space for storage units becomes less of an issue here on planet
Earth.



The Big Quotes:


“So we went from terabytes, petabytes, exabytes, and now when you
look at it globally, you're talking yottabytes?”


“So you can see that just tremendous amount of data being created
but much of it is ephemeral, and short lived, it's cached and
it's gone.”


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