Sunday, October 14, 2007

The Zettabyte of Data Cometh

Source Linux Journal November 2007 Issue 163. Back issues excluding the current month are available for view online at www.linuxjournal.com. The journal each month for a long time has a regular column titled "LJ Index". It's typically a stream of about 20 statistics somehow connected...maybe.

The sources listed at the bottom include a whitepaper which is actually cited from an emc website along with a web ticker estimating total data created and replicated to date this year. See Expanding the Digital Universe. Guess I'll go read that white paper sometime.

1. Average measured speed in Mbps of a broadband connection with "up to 8 Mbps download speed: 2.7

2. Lowest measured speed in KBps of a broadband connection with "up to 8Mbps" download speed: 90

3. Number of consumers out of five who get the broadband they signed up for: 1

4. Percent of surveyed consumers out of five who have felt mislead byh providers' advertising: 30

5. Billions of Internet users in 2006: 1.1

6. Additional millions of Internet users expected by 2010: 500

7. Millions of video streams per day served by YouTube: 100

8. Number of surveillance cameras in London: 200

9. Trillions of bits sent by London surveillance cameras to their data center: 64

10. Terabytes accumulated per day by Chevron: 2

11. Total exabytes of data in 2006: 161

12. Multiple in millions of 2006 data total to all information in all books ever written: 3

13: Percentage of the digital universe that will be created by inidividuals by 2010: 70

14: Percentage of the current digital universe that is subject to compliance rules and standards: 20

15. Percentage of the current digital universe that is potentially subject to security applications: 30

16. Exabytes of "user-generated content" expected by 2010: 692

17. Total exabytes of data expected by 2010: 988

18. Percentage of the 2010 digital universe for which organizations will be responsible for security, privacy, reliability and compliance: 85

19. Exabyte capacity of media ready to store newly created and replicated data in the 2010 digital universe: 601

20. Year in which the amount of information created will surpass available storage capacity for the first time: 2007

Sources: 1,2: which.co.uk, 3,4: moneysupermarket.com, 5-20: Expanding the Digital Universe by John F. Gantz et al, a March 2007 IDC whitepaper.

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4 comments:

Nanoflux said...

I meant to put in the title Zettabyte since after Terabyte comes a Petabyte then Exabyte then Zettabyte then Yottabyte. BTW, how does one edit an entry that one has posted?

murtini said...

It looks like you got it figured out, since "Zettabyte" is in the title now?

Nanoflux said...

Yes. After a delay a pencil appears in the lower right hand corner of any post you posted. Presumably the administrator has pencils on all posts.

murtini said...

I get pencils on posts, trash cans on comments, and tools on page template widgets. If only everything in life had tiny icons that I could click and with which I could administer things!