Research says digital data will grow to 2.75 zettabytes in 2012 and rocket toward nearly 8 zettabytes by 2015. How are we creating, replicating, saving, mining, and analyzing all of this data? What does our data driven reality of today tell us about the future?

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Research says digital data will grow to
2.75 zettabytes in 2012 and rocket
toward nearly 8 zettabytes by 2015.1
How are we creating, replicating,
saving, mining, and analyzing
all of this data?2 What does
our data driven reality of
today tell us about
the future?
ZETTABYTES
2012:
ZETTABYTES
60 million
50
173 107 566 340 billion 82 hours 845
million trillion billion million
petabytes
blogs online
objects stored tweets posted to
on Amazon’s S3 Twitter every day
cloud service by
by its
the end of 2011 140 million
active users
pages indexed
by Google
(December 2011)
stored on the
largest Yahoo!
Hadoop cluster
Sources:
1 IDC Worldwide Big Data Technology and Services 2012-2015 Forecast, #233485, March 2012
2 The Next Web, DAZEINFO
of video is
uploaded to
YouTube
every minute.
That’s
monthly active
Facebook users
resulting in
an average of
every second
emails sent
in 2010
of data collected
each day
1 hour
15TB