Most Cloud Service Provider’s use HDDs and Tape to deliver Storage Services, contain CapEx budgets, easily scale their infrastructure and to manage power consumption.

As big and unstructured data becomes more prevalent in society and at the same time data growth is approaching 165 ZB’s by 2025, organizations and CSP’s are grappling with data retention compliance and the most cost-effective architectures to manage and deliver storage services to their users and customers.

Additionally, budgets for IT and operating expenses for power and cooling continue to be challenging for both Data Center Operators as well as CIO’s.

This Session will explore:
- HDD based cloud architectures for scale and cost
- Data Tiering
- Areal Density Growth Strategies