It is estimated that fixed content will be the largest portion of digital content created by the human race in the next century, exceeding all dynamic content put together.Īlso, the information life cycle drives towards more fixed content.
A picture archive in a large hospital may generate more than 5 TB per year in digital X-rays or MRIs.An average enterprise (a 250-person organization) generates approximately 1.5 TB of e-mails per year.
Examples include: electronic documents, presentations and e-books rich media such as movies, videos, digital photographs and audio files check images and financial statements bioinformatics, X-rays, MRIs and CAT scans CAD/CAM diagrams and blueprints and e-mail messages. It's actively referenced, typically shared among users and must be retained (maintaining a copy of fixed content for a mandatory period of time) for a long period of time. Fixed Content Definitionįixed content is information that never changes after creation. Before I start, I'd like to explain what "fixed content" is and give an overview of the reasoning behind the emergence of this type of storage. NET wrapper being developed as an open source project to store "fixed content" on the EMC Centera storage appliance. This article is part of a series of articles that I am writing to illustrate the use of the EMC Centera SDK and the.
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