compliances , information-rights-management

Amount of data each day is unbelievable

April 28, 2012

We create terabtyes of data each day it’s like an ocean and each day data we create is wider and and further away, duplicate outdated incorrect corrupted. IT organizations have to get a handle on this. This is how identities are lost and customer confidence is lost.

 

Medium Content Type TB / Yr
High estimate
TB / Yr
Low estimate
Paper Books 39 9
Newspaper 138 26
Office Documents 4500 775
Mass Market Periodicals 500 100
Journals 400 2200
Newletters 200 50
Sub-total    
       
Film Photographs 5000 2500
Cinema 600000 20000
Made for TV films 260000 12000
Direct to video 90000000 60000
X-Rays 30000000 100000
Sub-total    
       
Optical Audio CD 108000 60000
CDROM 400000 25000
DVD 150000 5000
Sub-total    
       
Magnetic Videotape 180000000 130000000
Digital Tape 300000 20000
Mini Digital Videocasssettes 1300000 1000000
Floppy Disk 0.50 0.10
ZIP 1000000 5000
Audio MiniDiscs 10 3
Flash 3000000 275000
Hard-Disk 2800000000000 2100000000
Sub-total    
       
Information Totals    

 

 

Media 2009 (TB)
Surface Web 275
Deep Web 410
Email 10000000
Instant Messaging 160
Total