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Monday, October 10, 2011

postheadericon Data Hungry Humans to Generate 50 Times More Information by 2020

Before skimp on the size of your hard drive and save a few bucks on your build system, to examine the state of the digital universe. To help you do this, IDC develop its fifth annual study of the digital universe sponsored by EMC Corporation and found that, good, great and vast. We knew last year when the Earth zettabyte barrier was broken, and the end of 2011, the amount of information created and replicated exceed 1.8 zettabytes (only 1.8 billion gigabytes), which grows within a factor of 9 in just five years, according to IDC.

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1800000000000 gigabytes are contained in the files $ 500 billion, a figure more than doubles every two years and several bits of information in the digital world, as there are stars in our physical universe.

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