| 5 | | With the explosion growth of Web 2.0 applications, the need for an "infinite" storage arose. Web 2.0 applications like [http://www.flickr.com/ Flickr], [http://www.facebook.com Facebook], [http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/011309-wikipedia-digital-media.html?page=1 Wikipedia] or [http://www.youtube.com Youtube] have a high demand for storage space. The storage market faces new challenges because the existing solutions are too expensive to accomodate this growth. On one side, storage vendors are building high-available and scalable storage solutions that use commodity hardware, so that they can have more competitive products in the market. On the other side, the services that demand these volumes cannot wait for the release of new products and are building their own storage solutions based on commodity hardware. |
| | 5 | With the explosive growth of Web 2.0 applications, the need for an "infinite" storage arose. Web 2.0 applications like [http://www.flickr.com/ Flickr], [http://www.facebook.com Facebook], [http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/011309-wikipedia-digital-media.html?page=1 Wikipedia] or [http://www.youtube.com Youtube] have a high demand for storage space. The storage market faces new challenges because the existing solutions are too expensive to accommodate this growth. On one side, storage vendors are building high-available and scalable storage solutions that use commodity hardware, so that they can have more competitive products in the market. On the other side, the services that demand these volumes cannot wait for the release of new products and are building their own storage solutions based on commodity hardware. |