Seagate is presenting a case study of the XO Communication group, which predicted the amount of web data that will move on the web during the year 2016. By that year, we will reach a Zettabyte of data.

To come up with these numbers and to create a diagram, XO Communications used the world traffic data provided by Cisco. This case study is not about storaged files, but rather about digital data that is moving around the web.

Many of you might not know how much is a Zettabyte is so easiest explanation is that 1 ZB is 1024 Exabyte, or about 1.1 trillion GB, which is 1 billion Terabytes, if you need a more common unit to understand how much we are talking about.

The report analyzed 99% of the data flow where 55% comes from videos, like streaming, videos on demand, video chat, TV channels that offer Internet services, and so on; 23% comes from generic web data, while 21% comes from all the data that is shared between computers. The video sharing is pretty big, and we think it is going to get even bigger in the next few years.

All we need to do is wait for 2016 to see if XO Communications was right.




Source: Seagate
via Le Comptoir du Hardware.