From disk drums to atomic memory

The first magnetic hard disk, RAMAC, was developed by IBM in the late 1950's - the drive consisted of large drums full of magnetic platters that allowed for random read and write access and stored 5–10 MB of data. Today's atomic memory breakthrough builds upon some of the same concepts used in RAMAC, but allow for much denser storage at the atomic level that could carry entire libraries of music and movies on a small device.

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Big data

As big data gets bigger, moves faster and becomes more uncertain, dramatic increases in storage density are needed in order to gain insights and make important decisions.

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Cognitive computing

As big data continues to get bigger and move faster, cognitive systems that learn about specific domains such as medicine and interact more naturally with people will require dramatic performance advances in key information processing components such as memory, networking and storage.

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