October, 20218 Reading this article many would argue that data storage journey started long back with Punch Cards, magnetic tapes, or even bigger size Floppies. I would start with 3.5" Floppy disk as this was my first personal experience with a Data Storage device.How 1.4 Mega Bytes of data which was an eternity of storage become a small drop in Cloud storage?Back in 1987, when Floppy disk was introduced with 1.4 Mega Bytes of data, the storage of data was not a major thought or a concern for most of the businesses because their data was stored on paper.In that time, the speed and agility were depending upon how fast one can search from the documents on physical paper stored in big storerooms, alphabetically sorted, and partially destroyed over period of time. Then an era changed and data was get digitalized, yes Digitalization is not a recent term but was there for approximately 40 years where human being is trying to see opportunities to read and understand data in structured and faster way.That urge of digitalization changes the scope of the Data Storage from 1.4 Mega Bytes to Zetta and Yotta Bytes.Data Growth - an exponential curve which is not flattening in near futureWith Digitalization, many of the businesses went from "on paper to online". Even highly legal and compliant businesses also moved towards the online platform. With this changes, the amount of data produced by human being DATA STORAGE JOURNEY FROM 3.5" FLOPPY DISK TO CLOUD STORAGEBY NAVEEN GUPTA, GLOBAL HEAD OF DATA GOVERNANCE & ANALYTICS, ARCHROMA MANAGEMENT GMBHIN MY V EW
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