Fred Moore, President of Horison Information Strategies, will cover a potential new paradigm in storage technologies for hyperscale, enterprise and cloud deployment. With an estimated 80% of the worlds stored data now being classified as cold or archival, secondary storage represents by far the single largest storage category. The secondary storage market is currently shared by magnetic HDDs and tape, but the current rate of the HDD and tape roadmaps has slowed. As the zettabyte era accelerates, the issues of data center energy consumption and carbon emissions have become critical.

Moore will discuss the numerous improvements in tape technology that make it the optimal secondary storage choice for the foreseeable future – but can tape ever achieve that level of success?

Fred began a 21-year career with StorageTek as its first systems engineer and concluded as corporate vice president of Strategic Planning and Marketing. In 1998, Fred founded Horison Information Strategies in Boulder, Colorado, a data storage industry analyst and consulting firm.

Fred served as Editor of Storage for Computer Technology Review magazine and has written numerous books, articles, research reports and webcasts for the storage industry. He is a 1989 recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award and a 2004 recipient of the Arts and Science Scholar-In-Residence Award at the University of Missouri, Columbia where he received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a master’s degree in computer applications in physical geography.

He completed the Berkeley Executive Program in 1997 and currently serves on a few select boards in the storage networking industry.