According to the latest article "Becoming the "Papermakers" of the Data Awakening Era" written by Zhou Yuefeng, President of Huawei's Data Storage Product Line, released on February 21 by Fast Technology.
Zhou Yuefeng stated that the development of recording technology enables collective learning and evolution of humanity. With millions of years of presence on Earth, human civilization has only seen rapid development in the last 3000 years, thanks to this ability!
A digital corpus is the foundation of machine learning. No data, no AI! This is the era of "data awakening":
Cold data stored in tape libraries are beginning to wake up. Machines need to read this cold data to understand history, derive experiences, and generate knowledge. Cold data needs to be accessed at any time, turning into warm data.
Data is no longer casually discarded, and the retention period has become longer because the long-term value of data is being recognized. The data from cryo-electron microscopy, digital pathology slides, are all required to be stored for tens of times longer. This helps uncover the secrets behind diseases and the mysteries of human health.
We need a digital twin world, where machines help us learn and work in the digital twin world and then apply the results to the real world.
Zhou Yuefeng said that today, the cheapest data storage device costs roughly around 500 CNY per TB, excluding electricity costs. For the digital twin, we need to solve the problem of "affordable and available" data storage!
Our gaze returns to ancient China, the Eastern Han Dynasty, where our ancestors invented paper, which facilitated the recording and dissemination of knowledge for humanity. In the AI era, with the awakening of data, the challenge of information storage once again presents itself to humanity, and storage urgently needs a technological revolution to provide humanity with more user-friendly "paper" so that we can harness data!
