Total global data to hit 1.8ZB in 2011
By Chris Taylor
01/07/2011
This year the amount of digital information created in the world will hit 1.8ZB - the equivalent of 1.8 trillion gigabytes of data.
Thats according to analyst group IDC who predict that the current growth of data worldwide will now double every two years.
For enterprises, this means that IT leaders will need to have ten times the number of physical and virtual servers that they have today in order to keep up with data management demands.
This will also require the use of more and more sophisticated IT management systems to handle this explosion of data. Pocket-lint.com reveals that while the number of files in the digital universe will grow by 75 times over the next decade, the number of IT staff to manage them will grow by only 1.5 times.
In a computing.co.uk report, Cyrus Gilbert-Rolfe, a director at EMC's consulting division said that data volumes are increasing primarily due to the use and storage of digital images, video and CCTV footage.
"Today, we're looking at it being possible to create datasets that map a persons entire genome for a few hundred dollars," he explained.
"When you think about moving or replicating those types of dataset, the volumes of data that businesses will routinely deal with is phenomenal," he said.
