KUALA LUMPUR: This year global data volume is expected to rise to a whopping 1.5 exabytes, or about 1.5 billion terabytes, according to Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Ltd. This is equivalent to about 75,000 years of DVD-quality video data.
The vendor said the volume of data generated by businesses and other organisations is growing at a rate of about 50% year-over-year, with unstructured data such as e-mail, images, as well as audio and video files, amassing at 10x the rate of structured data.
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