Whether it’s Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), cloud storage or any other method that is being used in storage solution; there are still several ways using which you can make use of your complete storage efficiently. Many businesses easily forget about storage efficiency because of the reduced cost due to the low per-gigabyte cost of storage. Many storage solution experts working around the businesses added that with storage, the reduced cost is assisting the businesses to buy storage space rather than going for a smarter arrangement that saves cost, we are seeing increased spending. Gleb Budman, CEO of storage vendor Backblaze, added on a new level of storage, how full is going to be too full? It depends totally on the required use cases. A business though that using the storage solutions will make their company efficient in cost-saving and making them more reliable however it has led to need of resources that could maintain the efficiency of the resources and frequent updates of those storage solutions making the complete storage solution ineffective. Many have moved to cloud solutions; supposedly with the advantage of virtualization that was developed because people were not using all the processing power of the complete servers. So using the different drives, it’s the same concept why would you be buying the new storage solution. So, businesses need a complete solution that makes them efficient enough to build on different storage requirements and new virtualization solutions.

The new results in storage would be based on the traditional hard drives- spinning disks wherein the data aren’t written in the same order as the tracks and sectors, so it does not apply to the current SSD solutions being implanted for storage. The SSD solutions are without any moving parts, which lack the spinning disk requirement. Most storage has a certain capacity or percentage of capacity that can be utilized, so enterprises need to satisfy the condition when Virtualizing the complete storage requirement. Compression and deduplication are most mainstream ways of fitting more data onto the drives. However, both have mostly turned their existing innovation capacity to a completely different level. The per-gigabyte innovation in data compression has reached a level of saturation while with deduplication that has become a start procedure anytime they try to move their data, so neither of the solutions gives the company a much of an edge anymore when it comes to making efficient use of storage.

Is compression the really data solution? According to many business analysts compression is almost dead or slowing down. The researcher’s need more processing resources than they gain back in the compression percentage, the most drastic leaps in compression are still to be entertained, and most of them have happened in the past. With compression researches haven’t been able to save the data storage based on the requirements of the system making it mundane, One of the biggest lead in compression came forward when David Fifield announced by independent researcher on July 2, 2019, that compression is purely theoretical and of no real use in the world of IT infrastructure. Fifield’s method was to develop a new form of zip bomb- a small file that can be expanded to bring down the server by exceeding the drive capacity that isn’t completely a new idea but hasn’t been done of that scale for the business. Fifield added that initially, he was curious about whether there were in any way to bypass the code by signing the requirement on android. It has led to an understanding of the complete zip specification and study of various implementations that can be used with them. This has led to the understanding of the zip specification and study of various implementation with zip specification contains many ambiguities and reducing that will led to various types of divergent implementations. It has been proved numerous time before that it was originally designed and intended for the web page of a few paragraphs of code grew into a complete scientific paper. What makes zip-bomb have a very high compression ratio because it only stores useless data. It doesn’t apply the compression to the meaningful data in any way. The practicality of compression is still debated keeping the percentage aside; businesses need faster data access along with lower latency of data; such types of data shouldn’t be completely compressed. For a particular user, the thing they can do that is most efficient with their storage is to figure out what exactly type of data they want to be compressed, where they should go and how they should get it there?

Data deduplication is the first step in the data compression algorithms, such as LZ77 and LZ78, wherein the compression algorithm identifies the redundant data inside individual files and encodes the redundant data with more businesses. The main intent with deduplication is to inspect the large chunks of data and identify the large sections such as entire files or large section that are identical and replace then with a shared copy. For example, if their several emails are sent with the same attachment, after the deduplication process, we only save a single file. Deduplication saves only one instance of the attachment that actually stores the data other are just referenced back to the instance. Deduplication is often paired with data compression for additional storage-saving; deduplication is first to eliminate the large chunks of the repetitive data, and compression is then used to efficiently encode each of the stored chunks.

Conclusion

Though storage solutions are still far from making the complete system efficient, the need of having a technology upfront that can analyze the data and respond to each data whether it would require deduplication or compression algorithm is imperative. Cloud providers have recently been taking steps that make data storage more efficient embedding an AI-based solution to analyze the data and create a report to most used data and redundant data in the storage that can be deleted.

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