988 billion gigabytes
EMC already spends more than $1 billion each year for research and development is setting up an innovation network linking EMC research labs in India, China and Russia to deal with the information explosion.
They foresee a projected 988 billion gigabytes of in 2010 of email, images and other digital documents that need to backed up, managed, indexed, searched, secured and protected.
If it's hard to get your head around 988 billion (988,000,000,000) gigabytes, you might want to check out How Much Data is That? which, since I last looked at it about 2 years ago when terabyte was the last word has added petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte and yottabyte to describe very large numbers.
Posted by Jill Fallon on May 31, 2007 at 1:15 PM | Permalink | TrackBack
