Anyone who really needs to be reminded of the importance of data storage has either just been introduced to the computer for the first time, or has been living in an alternate reality, perhaps in the past even, for the last 10 years. These days, data is everything - money, information, the lot. Everything we ever do, or say, or want, or own, is reducible in the final analysis to bits and bytes flowing down fibre optic cables, to algorithms nestling in the labyrinthine RAM…