Say hello to the Zettabyte!
So, how rapidly is the Digital Universe expanding?
- Last year, despite the global recession, the Digital Universe set a record. It grew 62% to nearly 800,000 petabytes (a petabyte is a million gigabytes). Picture a stack of DVDs reaching from the earth to the moon and back.
- This year, the Digital Universe will grow almost as fast to 1.2 million petabytes, or 1.2 zettabytes.
- This explosive growth means that by 2020 our Digital Universe will be nearly 50 TIMES AS BIG as it was in 2009. Our stack of DVDs would now reach halfway to Mars.**
What will your job, business, social life, privacy and security look like in a world where all media, knowledge and culture is digital, online, semantically interlinked and in the hands of various data custodians?
THINK ABOUT IT.
**For more information, check out this interesting video by market intelligence firm IDC.
