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terabtyes of data each day it’s like an ocean and each day data we create is wider and and further away, duplicate outdated incorrect corrupted.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 49 19
Newspaper 138 26
Office Documents 110000 107500
Mass Market Periodicals 500 100
Journals 6000 4200
Newletters 300 500
Sub-total
Film Photographs 5000000 2500000
Cinema 600000 20000
Made for TV films 260000 12000
Direct to video 900000000 600000
X-Rays5 8000000000 60000000
Sub-total
Optical Audio CD 108000 60000
CDROM 400000 25000
DVD 150000 5000
Sub-total
Magnetic Videotape 18000000000 13000000000
Digital Tape 300000 20000
Mini Digital Videocasssettes 1300000 1000000
Floppy Disk 0.50 0.10
ZIP 1000000 5000
Audio MiniDiscs 10 3
Flash drive 30000000 2750000
Hard-Disk 28000000000000 21000000000
Sub-total
Information Totals
Media 2009 (TB)
Surface Web 475
Deep Web 410
Email 8000000000
Instant Messaging 86000
Total