Hello bionic fellows, cyborgs! Today we are going to talk about one of the elements that is making artificial intelligence explode: the huge amounts of data that machines are capable of storing and processing in real time today.
Let us remember that the other two elements that have promoted AI, and will do so even more in the coming years, are the algorithms and capabilities of the chips that process information, which are becoming cheaper and faster.
And so that you can see how this territory of AI advances, I bring you, in the palm of my hand, a Data Center . Here you can see, in my hand, a 32 TB flash memory. This, which measures only 10×15 cm , was ten years ago, well two like this memory, the capacity of a Data Center of a medium-sized company.
To get an idea of what 32 TB is, a very simple example. This memory has the same capacity as 128 xs Max 256Gb iphones . Another example. If a 4K definition movie weighs around 4GB, 256 4K movies would fit in a TB. And in this memory no less than 8,192 .
Flash storage has been around since 1987 on PCs and laptops. But it is not until now when it begins to be adopted in Data Centers, since its reliability is multiplied by five compared to traditional hard drives.
This, experts say, is the future of storage. The large Data Centers of the large multinationals that we all have in our mouths are full of cabinets in which this type of cards are in them. Hundreds of exabytes, petabytes, zetabytes of information, which are stored, processed with algorithms and converted into patterns, predictions and solutions for other companies.
