Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

Databases in Outer Space: Foley on Data

Episode Notes

The Big Themes:

• A lot of exciting things happening: Gartner is estimating that 75% of databases will be migrated to the cloud or be launched in the cloud by the end of next year.
• Big Data startup Ocient: Just raised $40 million in Series B to fund work on ingesting data on exabyte scale.
• IDC forecast: What they call the “Enterprise Datasphere” is growing 2X faster than the “Consumer Datasphere.”
• Putting databases into outer space: If you’re storing your digital assets in satellites, maybe then physical space for storage units becomes less of an issue here on planet Earth.

The Big Quotes:

“So we went from terabytes, petabytes, exabytes, and now when you look at it globally, you're talking yottabytes?”

“So you can see that just tremendous amount of data being created but much of it is ephemeral, and short lived, it's cached and it's gone.”

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