Big Data Predictions for 2015: Are We Ready to Manage 8 Zettabytes?

By Karla Robinson
November 18, 2011

CenturyLink has released an infographic illustrating that 1.8 zettabytes of data will be created this year — and by 2015, that number will be 7.9 (equal to 18 million times the digital assets in the Library of Congress).
By the end of 2012, 50 percent of consumer Internet traffic will be devoted to video, making the largest contribution to the data boom. However, in 2015, most of the traffic will come from wireless devices.
Much of the data produced by consumers is “shadow data,” things like search history.
The infographic also details resource growth and notes “even as IT costs are dropping, capital expenditures are rising.”
“Naturally, enterprises hold most of the data, whether it’s created by consumers or by knowledge workers on company time,” reports ReadWriteWeb. “That’s a lot of responsibility for managing data: What’s your company’s data strategy to handle the incoming deluge of data?”

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