First it was punches on a paper card – chads. Next it was magnetic tapes files spinning on a reel. Then it was core, strung together on X,Y,Z wires. Soon there was disk storage. And then with miniaturization there were massive amounts of disk storage. Along this progression, the cost of storage has shrunk and …Read More
Big Data – A Glimpse at the Future
First it was punches on a paper card – chads. Next it was magnetic tapes files spinning on a reel. Then it was core, strung together on X,Y,Z wires. Soon there was disk storage. And then with miniaturization there were massive amounts of disk storage. Along this progression, the cost of storage has shrunk and …Read More