Networked or autonomous driving is emerging as both a big challenge and a big opportunity for the automotive industry. By 2017, four out of five new cars will have an Internet connection. According to experts, the connected car of the future will send 25 Gigabytes of data to the cloud every hour, representing up to 130 Terabytes of primary data storage per car, per year. Managing, accessing, and protecting that data will be a monumental challenge, and Copy Data Virtualisation company Actifio has highlighted the important role data virtualisation will play in enabling the Connected Cars of the future. As networked mobility grows so will the demand for on on-the-fly data analysis (real-time data analysis) and software development, challenging in particular the availability of data. As more data is processed through a data centre, this data will need to remain in constant interaction with the vehicle on the road. In addition, new applications and software for networked vehicles will be required in future and must be continuously developed.
Networked mobility requires modern solutions to cope with the growing flood of data and the increasing demands on flexible data management and data access. The virtualisation of data copies, or copy data virtualisation, is one approach to address the challenges posed by the Connected Car era. This starts with more efficient data management and extends to DevOps scenarios where copy data management brings decisive advantages.
The sheer volume of data due to the growth of networked mobility is likely to overwhelm traditional approaches for data management in the future. Copy data virtualisation offers a proven solution to the problem, breaking the traditional geometric relationship between the growth of primary data and the expansion of networked storage. Its implementation ensures that data is not burdened by multiple redundant copies of the various application data, which are still managed in separate silos in traditional environments. Data can be de-coupled from its underlying infrastructure to achieve better reliability and mobility. The data is then de-duplicated globally and virtual copies can be provided seamlessly across the whole IT spectrum - from the traditional data centre to private or public cloud, SaaS, or hybrid cloud structures.
"Connected Cars will be sending 25 Gigabytes to the cloud every hour, the equivalent of a dozen HD movies and more capacity than most smartphones," said Ash Ashutosh, Actifio Founder & CEO. “Architects of the systems being built now to manage that deluge of data need to make sure it’s being managed, accessed, and protected in the most efficient way possible, and the best way to do that is through copy data virtualisation.”
