Storage Effect

The military is living the Digital Life, driving investment and innovation

It should be no surprise that the Digital Revolution is affecting the US Military much like it is our life and work. 

Our common need: lots of content, delivered everywhere.

James Rogers at Byte and Switch found that storage infrastructure is one of the spending priorities from the recently passed Defense Authorization Bill.   

For the military, the investment are probably not driven by YouTube and iTunes and Skype.  But the need for better access to data in dicey locations does drive technology innovation:

• File sharing technology from Exponential Storage
• Portable cluster computing from Nortech
• Rugged RAID storage from Ciprico
• Rugged disk drives from Seagate

Just goes to show that we’re all living a digital revolution that’s affecting every aspect of society. Let’s hope that as has happened many times in the past, investments in defense reap innovations that help us all in our daily lives.

How can you apply this innovation in your patch of the world?