The Internet infrastructure is incredibly storage dense, and will become even more so
Historically, “infractructures” have been a means to get from here to there: railways, waterways, highways, pipelines, powerlines, phone lines. The build-out of the internet infrastructure looks different in one aspect: beyond the broadband “pipes”, there is a massive and growing storage base, housed in data centers, that accounts for a major part of this infrastructure’s investment.
The trend will continue as the pipes get bigger and the content gets “heavier” from higher resolution video content and growing message sizes. The internet relies on storage as much as connections. Keep your eyes peeled for growing opportunity with a “pure bytes” play in your solutions.
On a related note, Seagate was part of the UK Internet Awards the other night – congrats to UKFast, winner of the Seagate-sponsored Best Dedicated Hosting Award. UKFast is a great example of making the most of the newest infrastructure.
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