Databases in Outer Space: Foley on Data

<p>The Big Themes:</p><ul><li><strong>A lot of exciting things happening:</strong> Gartner is estimating that 75% of databases will be migrated to the cloud or be launched in the cloud by the end of next year.</li><li><strong>Big Data startup Ocient: </strong>Just raised $40 million in Series B to fund work on ingesting data on exabyte scale.</li><li><strong>IDC forecast:</strong> What they call the “Enterprise Datasphere” is growing 2X faster than the “Consumer Datasphere.”</li><li><strong>Putting databases into outer space:</strong> If you’re storing your digital assets in satellites, maybe then physical space for storage units becomes less of an issue here on planet Earth.</li></ul><p>The Big Quotes:</p><p>“So we went from terabytes, petabytes, exabytes, and now when you look at it globally, you're talking yottabytes?”</p><p>“So you can see that just tremendous amount of data being created but much of it is ephemeral, and short lived, it's cached and it's gone.”</p><p>This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.</p>