My whole life I have been fascinated by sci-fi or what I call “future looking trends”. Many ideas have come to fruition that were explored on shows like Star Trek.

This article discusses new opportunities for storing data – the new frontier of marketing. Let’s face it data is a huge part of marketing – review how Kroger uses they learn in their data acquisition from their frequent shopper cards. More and more companies are using or storing vast amounts of data. So understanding not only what to do with that data, and how to store it becomes a bigger and bigger issue daily. Data can be your friend as a marketer, understanding how to use it is a whole other subject, but for now, let’s look at how you store your data.

Keep in mind how ever your store your data, it should have limited access by employees that have been vetted, strong passwords and encrypted. If you do not know how to do this, I might suggest hiring someone that does. Loss of data costs companies millions each year and loss of customers. Again another subject, another day, but I needed to mention it.

Data junkies read on…my favorite is the glass storage – there are a couple of them in this article. 6 futuristic data storage technologies – http://engt.co/2bd35Iz

Keywords: #data #datastorage #datatrends #bigdata