“Save the Last Dance for Digital Storage”

Creation and distribution of content, its digital preservation and its consumption and use by individuals will be the great drivers for digital storage growth as well as recovery in the data storage industry. Projections on digital storage for media and entertainment markets as well as the various static and mobile consumer markets, including storage device projections, will be presented based upon recent reports released by Coughlin Associates as well as a survey on storage use by media and entertainment professionals. Prospects for new storage technologies such as solid state storage and holographic optical disc content distribution will also be discussed.