The National Archives is struggling to store it all
It’s clear that running the United States kicks off a lot of data. The New York Times and Storage Optimization report on how the National Archives is reeling under the weight of the Bush Administration’s 100 terabytes of information. That’s fifty times more data than the Clinton Administration generated just eight years prior.
Our focus on annual growth rates can obscure the compounding power of data growth. The information explosions is a raw, relentless force of nature!
I predict an eight-year Obama Administration will generate 100 times the volume of Bush: 10 petabytes.
What’s your guess?
[…] only is it eye opening to learn how much data our federal government generates, it’s interesting to learn that many of the challenges they face are the same ones small […]