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People awaiting packages in the mail can’t submit 58.3
million tracking information requests for UPS packages26
and 50 million for FedEx packages.27
The locations of 4
million phones, from Apple’s record number of first day
pre-orders of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus,28
would be un-
known taking people from excitement to frustration.
SHIPPING
16,320,000 cars worldwide can’t use their navigation devices.23
Google’s well-known self-driving car cannot integrate all the data
from its sensing systems (1GB/second) to build a map of the car’s
position.24
Without air traffic control, 87,000 flights are
grounded.25
TRANSPORTATION
SOCIAL MEDIA
ENTERTAINMENT
Worldwide, 903.3 million
pay-TV subscribers would lose
access.21
Pandora listeners don’t
hear a total of 55.8 million hours
of streaming music.22
Online networkers can’t share over 500
million tweets,15
70 million Instagram photos.16
864 million Facebook users17
can’t spend an
average of 39 minutes on the network,18
sharing
more than 4.75 billion posts (including status
updates, photos, etc.) and sending more than
10 billion messages.19
YouTube users can’t enjoy more than 4 billion
video views.20
The Ability to Instantly Access Online Data for Information
Gathering and Communication Creates Opportunity
78% of office-based physicians12
and 59% of
hospitals13
in the U.S. cannot access patients’
electronic health records. The majority of
medical professionals are crediting the
features of EHRs in preventing
life-threatening medical errors!14
HEALTH
The number of devices with cellular or satellite
connectivity deployed in oil and gas applica-
tions worldwide is estimated to be 1.12 mil-
lion by 2018. Data from these devices would
not help the vital hunt for hydrocarbons in
remote and extreme environments.11
E-COMMERCE
E-commerce retailers lose up to $2 billion in
sales.9
This could affect the 244 million
members on Amazon or over 149 million
buyers on eBay around the world.10
ENERGY
WEATHER FORECASTING
Relationships made between historical weather
patterns, current observational data, and
long-range extreme temperature events would
not be possible. To provide accurate
weather forecasts, each day billions of
calculations with hundreds of
weather patterns are compiled from
over 10,000 days of observations.7
FINANCE
How we get money anywhere or
anytime around the world might
not happen. The average cost of a
transaction using an online or
mobile device is 56 cents, 59 cents
at an ATM, compared to $3.97 with a
bank teller.8
1.75 billion smartphone owners
worldwide can no longer use
their phones.1
The mobile
phone is used for more than
just calls or sending messages.
For hundreds of millions of people
in India, it’s sometimes the only piece of technology
in their home.2
More than 1.5 million farmers use
mobile phones for data on market prices, crop
volumes, and weather forecasts.3
Email users worldwide can’t send and receive 182
billion messages.4
4.9 million Skype users5
are unable to spend
2 billion minutes using the IM and video calling app.6
A DAY IN OUR LIVES WITHOUT DATA
Quick Glimpse:
COMMUNICATION
From modern transportation to monetary infrastructures, we depend on data to power global systems.
Now more than ever, data needs to be carefully managed across different “boundaries,” without losing
control. Considering how tightly integrated data is in our lives today, how did we ever get by without it?
Imagine a day without data…
EVERY INDUSTRY HAS A DATA FABRIC
NetApp’s vision is to transform how organizations manage, secure, protect, and move their data, regardless of where it lives.