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Applications drivers for data parking on the Information Superhighway

Author
Foeller, Thomas
Published
Mar 1, 1994.
Physical Description
1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Johnson, Clark E., Jr.
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Summary
As the cost of data storage continues to decline (currently about one-millionth of its cost four decades ago) entirely new applications areas become economically feasible. Many of these new areas involved the extraordinarily high data rates and universal connectivity soon to be provided by the National Information Infrastructure (NII). The commonly held belief is that the main driver for the NII will be entertainment applications. We believe that entertainment applications as currently touted (multi-media, 500 video channels, video-on-demand, etc.) will play an important but far from dominant role in the development of the NII and its data storage components. The most pervasively effective drivers will be medical applications such as telemedicine and remote diagnosis, education and environmental monitoring. These applications have a significant funding base and offer a clearly perceived opportunity to improve the nation's standard of living. The NII's wideband connectivity both nationwide and worldwide requires a broad spectrum of data storage devices with a wide-range of performance capabilities. These storage centers will be dispersed throughout the system. Magnetic recording devices will fill the majority of these new data storage requirements for at least the rest of this century. The storage needs of various application areas and their respective market sizes will be explored. The comparative performance of various magnetic technologies and competitive alternative storage systems will be discussed.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
Note
Document ID: 19950017689.
Accession ID: 95N24109.
NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center, Fourth NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies; p 1-5.
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