The amount of digital information grew 62 per cent in 2009 to 800 billion gigabytes and is expected to touch 1.2 zettabytes in 2010, industry tracker International Data Corporation (IDC) said yesterday.
A recent research document released by IDC showed that digital information created in 2010 will equal 100 years of tweets and 75 billion iPads. The research firm also compared the growth of data to 707 trillion copies of the more than 2,000-page US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into Law in March 2010. Stacked end-to-end, the documents would stretch from Earth to Pluto and back 16 times or cover every inch of the United States in paper three feet deep.
The number of files, images, records and other digital information containers will grow by a factor of 67, each needing to be managed, secured and protected. Despite this growth, the number of IT professionals globally will grow only by a factor of 1.4, IDC said.
The cumulative effect is driving CIOs to seek out new levels of agility, efficiency and control by moving quickly towards private cloud computing environment.
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