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An information technology based economy requires a cyberinfrastructure in analogy to the industrial infrastructure necessary for the viability of an industrial economy. This cyberinfrastructure consists of the systems for information processing, communication, and storage. Among these three, information storage systems have very much become victims of their own success. Years of remarkable technological advances have caused many to believe two conflicting notions. On the one hand there is a sense that information storage is a "mature" technology in which new "game changing" developments will not take place and that only incremental advances are possible. Yet at the same time there is an expectation that information storage systems' performance, primarily storage densities, will continue to increase exponentially with storage capacities perhaps doubling every year even as the cost of storage continues to decrease. It is now clear that neither perception is true.
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