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WORDS ADAM DUCKWORTH THE DATA REVOLUTION Faster and bigger hard drives that keep your data safe from prying eyes are becoming reality

“We have seen an exponential rise in the amount of data created,” he said. “Things have been changing so rapidly. At first 720p was the big deal, then 1080p, and now 4K, 8K and VR goggles – soon there will be 8K and beyond screens. The data sets have been exploding.” SECURITY With lots of data being moved around, security is becoming a problem. The massive amount of data for things like Hollywood movies is vast, so can’t be stored on the cloud. That means hard drives with very important and often sensitive data are often being shipped around on portable hard drives –

storage industry, Tim Bucher, who is senior vice president of Seagate consumer solutions, and who looks after all the external hard drive products made by Seagate and its extended family of companies such as LaCie. With the Seagate group being one of the two big global companies involved in making hard drives and flash storage from its HQ in Cupertino, Tim understands not just what filmmakers want and what they will need in the future, but also the requirements of other users of data, from consumers on their mobile phones to Hollywood SFX specialists creating feature films.

t’s fair to say there has been an explosion in the amount of data we need to safely store and access, and this trend is set to not only continue but increase. With cameras chasing higher resolution up to 8K and beyond, and VR and multi- camera editing found everywhere, it’s no surprise that the amount of data we create is predicted to increase tenfold by the year 2025. That’s a huge amount of data, which all needs to be accessed at lightning-fast speed when being edited – and it needs to be kept safe and protected from those who want to access it without permission. That’s the view of one of the top men in the global hard drive and

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