As you may have read, last week IDC revealed the results of a study that found that the amount of digital information created, captured and replicated in the world as of Dec. 31, 2007, was 281 billion gigabytes, as reported by Brian Womack at Investor's Business Daily. According to IDC’s report, industries responsible for the data aren't always the same ones driving the economy. Financial services are about 6% of the economy and take up that much of the digital "universe," IDC says. But while manufacturing and utilities are responsible for roughly 30% of the world's economic output, they produce about 15% of the world's digital information and the communications, media and entertainment sectors make up less than 10% of the world's economic output but almost 50% of the digital universe, thanks to all those beefy video and music files.
There is certainly room for discussion about how storage vendors can – and should – be helping enterprises in all fields manage the exponential growth of their data. Compellent prides itself on not only being a storage vendor, but an IT partner to our customers. We have worked closely with our customers to develop technologies that make the most of limited physical and economical resources, and know the solutions we are delivering – from the media industry to the healthcare sector – are best in class.
So how is your organization coping with its growing data?