National Academy of Engineering named storage’s biggest engineering challenges of the next century. Expert: Mask complexity, improve performance, and automate every last function possible. “Greening up” storage — reducing its carbon footprint and powering requirements. “Unified storage: A truly open, usable, standardized, storage ‘grid’ capability out-of-the-box for enterprise environments is the biggest desired technology breakthrough in the storage realm. Storage is very costly, because the protocols are all different for data, for storage, or for inter-server communication, requiring different adapters, cables and technologies.”]
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