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The first number the firm has come up with is 3,892,179,868,480,350,000,000, calculated as the number of new digital information bits created in 2008.
The Digital Universe study, which measures and forecasts the vast amounts and diverse types of digital information created and copied annually. This works out at 487 billion gigabytes in size, the amount of information created in 2008 is the equivalent of more than:
237 billion fully-loaded Amazon Kindle wireless reading devices
4.8 quadrillion online bank transactions
3 quadrillion Twitter feeds
162 trillion digital photos
30 billion fully-loaded Apple iPod Touches
19 billion fully-loaded Blu-ray DVDs
And here's the rub: "While the pace of digital information increased in 2008, IT budgets declined, thus creating an even larger divide between the amount of information generated and the amount of IT resources purchased and deployed to manage it. This dynamic further validates the demand for tools and techniques (e.g. virtualisation, deduplication and other data reduction technologies, etc) geared specifically to managing more with less."
The study was conducted by research firm IDC and looking further out over the next four years the company sees:
The number of information-generation technologies and interactions will increase dramatically:
Mobile users will grow by a factor of 3.0.
Over the next four years, 600 million more people will become Internet users.
Nearly two-thirds of all Internet users will use mobile devices at least some of the time.
Non-traditional IT devices such as wireless meters, automobile navigation systems, industrial machines, RFID readers, and intelligent sensor controllers - will grow by a factor of 3.6.
Interactions between people via email, messaging, social networks, etc. - will grow by a factor of 8.0.
Most of the world's economic stimulus efforts will also increase the amount of digital information created, the result of increased access to broadband communications, electronic patient records, smart electric grids, smart buildings and autos, etc. By 2012, 850 million people will buy and sell products and services on the Internet and twice as much Internet commerce will take place versus 2008. By 2012, Internet commerce will be a $13 trillion industry, mostly involving sensitive business-to-business commerce.
All of which is good news for the data center sector.
The first number the firm has come up with is 3,892,179,868,480,350,000,000, calculated as the number of new digital information bits created in 2008.
The Digital Universe study, which measures and forecasts the vast amounts and diverse types of digital information created and copied annually. This works out at 487 billion gigabytes in size, the amount of information created in 2008 is the equivalent of more than:
237 billion fully-loaded Amazon Kindle wireless reading devices
4.8 quadrillion online bank transactions
3 quadrillion Twitter feeds
162 trillion digital photos
30 billion fully-loaded Apple iPod Touches
19 billion fully-loaded Blu-ray DVDs
And here's the rub: "While the pace of digital information increased in 2008, IT budgets declined, thus creating an even larger divide between the amount of information generated and the amount of IT resources purchased and deployed to manage it. This dynamic further validates the demand for tools and techniques (e.g. virtualisation, deduplication and other data reduction technologies, etc) geared specifically to managing more with less."
The study was conducted by research firm IDC and looking further out over the next four years the company sees:
The number of information-generation technologies and interactions will increase dramatically:
Mobile users will grow by a factor of 3.0.
Over the next four years, 600 million more people will become Internet users.
Nearly two-thirds of all Internet users will use mobile devices at least some of the time.
Non-traditional IT devices such as wireless meters, automobile navigation systems, industrial machines, RFID readers, and intelligent sensor controllers - will grow by a factor of 3.6.
Interactions between people via email, messaging, social networks, etc. - will grow by a factor of 8.0.
Most of the world's economic stimulus efforts will also increase the amount of digital information created, the result of increased access to broadband communications, electronic patient records, smart electric grids, smart buildings and autos, etc. By 2012, 850 million people will buy and sell products and services on the Internet and twice as much Internet commerce will take place versus 2008. By 2012, Internet commerce will be a $13 trillion industry, mostly involving sensitive business-to-business commerce.
All of which is good news for the data center sector.