About 2.5 Quintillion Bytes of data is being generated every day, and the figures will continue to grow exponentially in the future. The question arises on how and where to store the colossal sized data? The present modes of SAN, NAS, solid state, RAID are working in conjunction with Big Data and other technologies like NoSQL, MPP (Massive Parallel Processing) while other unconventional methods are being developed in the side-line. The storage and management of the extraordinary amount of data requires innovative ways.
