Some say we’re now in the Terabyte Era, due to the size of today’s largest disk drives – two terabytes.
Others say we’re in the Petabyte Era (1,000x larger than a terabyte), since that’s about how much many companies now have stored in their datacenters.
Listening to IDC and EMC, one might think we’re in the Exabyte Era [...]
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What’s your digital footprint?
You generate much more information than the files and messages you create
EMC now has a digital footprint calculator on their website. It estimates how much information is being created, stored and replicated by one’s daily life. This is an eye-opening exercise that points out all the myriad ways we each generate digital information, far beyond the obvious powerpoints, emails and digital [...]