Standards Enabling Open Source Cloud Storage

Lucas Mearian sees large vendors developing standards for open source cloud storage . Mearian explains that new technologies are developing new services that were difficult to index before, such as video and photos. He describes these technologies, which require new data standards and huge storage capacities:

Object-based storage addresses a world of unstructured data where pictures, movies, e-commerce, games, and archives are all searchable through metadata or descriptive data. In the new storage paradigm, information is stored, read and deleted but never modified.

It appears that if these technologies are implemented and open access, information will be far more accessible than using search engines such as the current Google. There will still be a place for knowledge specialists maintaining standard index terms to be used for the metadata, though the indexing itself I envision being done through automation.

-DD