Sami Slim: Amalgamating Technologies for Data Management
The internet is not the first attempt at organizing the world’s knowledge, but it is perhaps the most successful one. The technology was like a spark that became wildfire. People stored their data on floppy drives, CDs, pen drives, and hard drives—but more and more data came pouring in. The numbers of Google’s googol became less of an exaggeration and perhaps more of an underestimation. Soon the question arose, ‘Where to store all this data?’
Data centers came into being because local PCs and servers simply couldn’t keep up with the storage demands anymore. Huge, offsite, and recognizable as a ‘cloud,’ they became the epicenters of the world’s data. One of the hosts of such