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TECHNOLOGY FOCUS: OPTICAL DISC FOCUS:
DATA - THE OIL OF OUR TIME
HIDEHARU TAKESHIMA, CTO OF MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL MEDIA EXAMINES THE ONGOING ROLE OF
ARCHIVAL OPTICAL DISC IN AN INCREASINGLY DATA DRIVEN ERA
With the popularisation of Social
Networking Services (SNSs), the
Internet of Things (IoT) and higher
camera resolutions, the amount of data
being generated will continue to increase
dramatically, improving productivity and
creating new business opportunities. We are
in the Data Driven Era.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is considered to
be the key technology in this era with
Deep Learning the mainstream of AI,
creating the neural network that learns
from known input and output data and
predicting optimum answers. The accuracy
of the analysis is determined by how much
learning data is given to the neural
network. In addition, as new analysis
algorithms are created, new knowledge
can be obtained by analysing the past
data with the new algorithms. Therefore,
captured data that had previously not
been considered useful may now prove
highly valuable.
Oil has been the world's most important
substance since the mid-1950s - the
lifeblood of the industrialised nations. Its
products underpin modern society, mainly
supplying energy to power industry, heating
homes and providing fuel for vehicles and
aeroplanes to carry goods and people all
over the world.
We are now living in a data-driven society
and it can be argued that data is now more
important and valuable than oil. Data can
be used, but unlike oil, it does not have to
be consumed. It can be kept for future
analysis, so we have a duty to store data
with the view that it may prove useful in the
future. The challenge is how we should
store these increasingly large volumes of
data in a way that is cost effective and
accessible for the future.
06 STORAGE
Jan/Feb 2019
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