A Journey of Digital Storage from Punch Cards to Cloud

Abstract

Various data storage devices have been developed till now to serve the increasing demand of mankind to store data. In today"s modern world of technology people have become so familiar to the storage and backup devices such as CDs, DVDs, and USB key etc. The trend of floppy disks, cassette tapes have vanished from the current basket of storage devices. Such obsolete devices as punch cards, magnetic tapes, floppy, etc have been forgotten by the ensuing generations, which provided a broad way for the innovation of current available storage devices that are being used by everyone. Although the existing storage media provide a good storage option but still they do not ensure the data security and the cost of data loss therefore some other mechanism is needed which can deal with data storage, its security and backup facility. Cloud is the most suited and remarkable technology towards these issues. Nowadays cloud storage is gaining popularity amongst all other devices as it is capable of storing BIG DATA (both structured and unstructured) of almost any size over cloud service provider"s premises and provides excellent backup quality.