With The Rise Of 8K Content, Exabyte Video Looms

With The Rise Of 8K Content, Exabyte Video Looms. Tom Coughlin. Forbes. June 25, 2015.
   Digital storage has an important role in the professional media and entertainment industry. The ever growing archive of long-tail digital content and increasing digitized historical analog content is in increasing demand for archives using tape, optical discs and hard drive arrays. There has been a noticeable increase in 8K content. " It is expected that single video projects generating close to 1 Exabyte of raw data will occur within 10 years." A recent survey on digital storage in media and entertainment showed important for digital storage trends in the area.

Those using cloud storage:

• 2015: 30.2% of participants
• 2014: 25.6% 
• 2013: 24.7%
• 2012: 15.1%  

 Those with over 1 TB in the cloud:

• 2015: 32.9%
• 2014: 28.1% 
• 2013: 23%
• 2012: 26.7%

Some other results from the survey concerning archiving:

• 34% had over 2,000 hours of content in a long term archive in 2015
• 26.9% added over 1,000 hours to their archive in 2015
• 32.6% had over 2,000 hours of unconverted analog content in 2015
• 42.8% said they have an annual analog conversion rate of 2% or less (4.5% was average)

Types of storage media in 2015:

• Digital Tape: 40% 
• External Hard Disk Drives: 28%  
• Disk-based Local Storage Networks: 16%.
• Optical discs: 6%.
• Public cloud: 5%

Digital Preservation Matters.