Although all of the data storage markets (disk, tape, online, personal, business, and so on) continue to grow at astounding rates, none is growing as quickly as the very specialized video storage sector, where heavy digital lifting abounds. Companies such as Isilon, BlueArc, Spinnaker/NetApp, IBRIX, Hewlett-Packard, Sun StorageTek, Thomson/Grass Valley, ProMax Systems, G-Tech, Pinnacle and MedeaVideo use either Linux clusters or their own homemade operating systems to move huge amounts of raw digital film data from the artist to the producer--and often several times back and forth until the scene is completed. Here are 10 of the most amazing numbers involving this busy sector.

Movie Video Storage by the Numbers - $65 billion
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$65 billion: Estimated size of worldwide external disk storage market in 2010, according to IDC. This market is expected to triple its size in a mere four years.

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