With a predicted increase in data to 44 zettabytes by 2020, the forecasts for 2014 have been revised upwards again.
According to an HGST survey, 86% of the 710 surveyed decision makers believe that these enormous amounts of information could be of practical value to companies – on the condition that the data can be stored, made available and analyzed. The majority of respondents therefore considered the storage sector as the main field for their upcoming IT investments.
At the same time, cloud computing plays an increasingly important role in this context, because cloud solutions make it possible to provide high volumes of storage – quickly and on demand. According to the Global Cloud Index, 76% of all data traffic will relocate to the cloud by 2018. And every second Internet user is expected to be storing data in the cloud. (Quelle: EMC/HGST/Cisco/sp)