Comments on: IDC’s Storage Paradox

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Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:53:36 +0000

[...] of this presentation at ISP's and all hops it goes through. Not that I ever bought into IDC's Storage Paradox, but this is clearly a very wasteful [...]

By: Business Management

Business Management — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:52:54 +0000

I would like to say that I learned about the IDC storage paradox on Zoli Erdos’ blog. Zoli mentions this Associated Press article, which cites IDC’s estimate that “the world had 185 exabytes of storage available last year and will have 601 exabytes in 2010. But the amount of stuff generated is expected to jump from 161 exabytes last year to 988 exabytes in 2010″.

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Oh, That Bloated Presentation - The Web is Greener | CloudAve — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:41:57 +0000

[...] of this presentation at ISP's and all hops it goes through. Not that I ever bought into IDC's Storage Paradox, but this is clearly a very wasteful [...]

By: Isabel Wang

Isabel Wang — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:24:15 +0000

This reminds me of http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4497

Dan Farber wrote that according to an IBM study, “the world’s information base will double every 11 hours”. If that’s the case, on Jan 1, 2011, we’ll need 1976 exabytes of storage. And by that evening, 3952 exabytes…

By: Dave Donohue

Dave Donohue — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:49:42 +0000

Zoli,

I’m happy to send you the full report and the executive summary. Please drop me an email when you get a moment.

By: Mike Cannon-Brookes

Mike Cannon-Brookes — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:30:00 +0000

Mate – are you sure you’re OK? You didn’t mention Zoho in this post so I just wanted to check