The data centers of the future will need everything the SSD, HDD, and tape industries can manufacture and deliver, as well as requiring new DNA and optical and perhaps other enterprise storage technologies, to cost effectively and reliably preserve the priceless artifacts of our personal, corporate, and cultural history. Availability and sustainability challenges, combined with the costs of managing our multi-millionfold-petabyte dataverse over increasingly lengthy time periods, will create new use cases for old storage technologies and demand the creation of new, more cost-effective, and power-efficient storage technologies.

Inevitably and inescapably, richly varied computing technologies will come and go, but the data we create will remain, and will grow to unimaginable immensity.