Today EMC released the findings of the new EMC-sponsored IDC study titled, “The Digital Universe Decade – Are you Ready?” The study measures and forecasts data growth rate, i.e. the amount of digital information created and copied annually worldwide. In 2009, the amount of digital information grew 62 per cent over 2008 to 800 billion gigabytes (0.8 Zettabytes).
One Zettabyte equals one trillion gigabytes.
The amount of digital information created in 2010 is estimated to reach 1.2 Zettabytes. That’s the total estimation from all the tweets, blogging, facebook postings, etc. How much is 1.2ZB in practical terms? According to the study, it can be thought of as a full-length episode of FOX TV’s hit series “24” running continuously for 125 million years. Or, as all the people on Earth tweeting continuously for 100 years. One third of all that data will pass through the Cloud.
PRESS RELEASE
Study Projects Nearly 45-Fold Annual Data Growth by 2020
Cloud Computing to Stimulate More than US$1 Trillion in Incremental Business Revenue by 2014
HOPKINTON, Mass. – May 4, 2010 – EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced results of the new EMC-sponsored IDC study titled “The Digital Universe Decade – Are You Ready?*” This fourth update to the groundbreaking Digital Universe data growth rate study measures and forecasts the vast amount of digital information created and copied annually and its implications for individuals and Information Technology professionals worldwide.
* IDC Digital Universe Study, sponsored by EMC, May 2010
