In no particular order, events and trends driving storage in 2007:
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Microsoft Windows Vista. The launch has been touch and go, but eventual broad-based adoption means much more storage per PC.
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“Lost data” events – TJ Maxx, the UK Government, etc. Lost and stolen customer records in the news have created a whole new category of nightmares for business owners, driving them to invest in data security. Or secure data.
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Data deduplication. Amazing data efficiency is becoming readily available. Rather than reduce the amount of data saved, it’s expanding the use of archiving.
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Home servers. Microsoft Home Server launched just as the market seems poised to adopt these content “home bases”.
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External storage drives. Prices dropped this year, spiking sales of 250GB, 500GB, even 1 TB backup drives for homes and small businesses.
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Video surveillance. Analog-to-digital conversion plus image processing innovations have resulted in huge growth in terabyte-scale surveillance for businesses of all sizes.
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Video downloads. iTunes, Unbox, even network TV have introduced downloading movies and episodes (and seasons) into the mainstream.
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