In the 1970's during excavations in the Lebombo Mountains in Africa, a piece of the fibula of a baboon, the Lebombo bone, was found marked with 29 clearly defined notches. Arguably, this 40,000 old artifact is the oldest known information storage device.  This modest beginning led to a very fast progress in the past 50 years:  The first magnetic disk drive was created in 1956 by Reynold Johnson and his team at IBM. It consisted of 50 magnetic disks, each with diameter of 24 inches and capacity of 100KB.  In comparison, a relatively old iPod has a single magnetic disk with diameter of 1.8 inches and capacity of 160GB. While storage density and access performance were key drivers in the revolution in information storage; the recent key technology drivers in information storage are the integration between information storage and communications and the creation of portable and energy-efficient storage.  I will provide an overview of this evolution and present some current and future research challenges related to solid state storage.