These object stores are stable, resilient, easily accessible, and simpler to manage. Plus, data can be stored as immutable copies which are impervious to ransomware attacks.

"My oldest son and I were out driving around just checking fields," said Sawchuk, who farms near Ituna, Sask., about 250 kilometres southeast of Saskatoon. "We came across this object.

"We will observe each deep field between 30 and 52 times over Euclid's six-year mission, each time improving the resolution of how we see those areas and the number of objects we manage to observe.

It is expected that data lakes will reach an annual market volume of $20.1 billion by 2025, according to Research and Markets - despite the term being just over a decade old. The concept of the data ...