...in spite of the recession. A new EMC-sponsored study projects some incredible numbers in terms of storage growth in the next 18 months: The new findings highlight the third update to the groundbreaking Digital Universe study, which measures and forecasts the vast amounts and diverse types of digital information created and copied annually. Calculated to be 487 billion gigabytes² in size, the amount of information created in 2008 is the equivalent of more than: * 237 billion fully-loaded Amazon Kindle wireless reading devices * 4.8 quadrillion online bank transactions * 3 quadrillion Twitter feeds * 162 trillion digital photos * 30 billion fully-loaded Apple iPod Touches * 19 billion fully-loaded Blu-ray DVDsThis backs up something I mention lately in my storage classes. At the very least, all the user account data and such that already exists for banks has to be kept for FDIC-insured deposits, no matter what the name of the company where they land is. Look at the numbers on new data alone! Storage teams won't lose their jobs, but wthe bigger concern is managing all that growth, and scaling up to meet it. If Tucci's numbers here are solid, that merely reinforces the problem he has in EMC's inability to link Symmetrix and Clariion, like external solutions from HDS and IBM.
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