The amount of digital data created over the next five years will be more than twice the amount of data created since the advent of digital storage, according to a 2021 report from International Data Corporation (IDC). With the pandemic-induced increase in people working from home, attending classes via video conference, and streaming video for entertainment, data creation and replication had a record year in 2020.
Video surveillance applications also saw a greater need for data protection, access, and storage. “The year 2022 is likely to be a massive year for the video storage industry,” predicts Eugene Kozlovitser, chief technology officer of BCD in Buffalo Grove, Ill. “New low-latency solutions are in greater demand and 4K/8K edge IoT devices continue to rise and dominate. With grouping, analysis, and processing of streams being performed simultaneously on-premise and in local cloud systems, storage infrastructure needs to be strong enough to both accommodate and scale to account for growing bandwidth and data traffic.”