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Volume (cont’d)
• IDC now predicts that the digital universe will be 44 times bigger in 2020
than it was in 2009, totalling a staggering 35 zettabytes. 3
• EMC reports that the number of customers storing a petabyte or more of
data will grow from 1,000 (reached in 2010) to 100,000 before the end of
the decade. 4
– By 2012 it expects that some customers will be storing exabytes (1,000 petabytes) of
information. 5
• In 2010 Gartner reported that enterprise data growth will be 650 percent
over the next five years, and that 80 percent of that will be unstructured. 6
3 “The Digital Universe Decade – Are You Ready?” IDC, sponsored by EMC Corporation, May 2010. See tab “The Digital Universe Decade,”
http://www.emc.com/collateral/demos/microsites/idc-digital-universe/iview.htm
4 “EMC’s Record Breaking Product Launch,” Chuck Hollis blog, 14 January 2011, http://chucksblog.emc.com/chucks_blog/2011/01/emcs-record-breaking-product-launch.html
5 Ibid.
6 “Technology Trends You Can’t Afford to Ignore,” Gartner Webinar, January 2010, slide 8,
http://www.gartner.com/it/content/1258400/1258425/january_6_techtrends_rpaquet.pdf
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