“70% of the digital universe is created, captured, or replicated by individuals – consumers and desk and information workers toiling far away from the data center – enterprises have responsibility or reliability for 85%.”
This infographic is great, but it’s very human focused. Yes, we humans are creating the data deluge, but let’s not forget that we are not alone. No, I am not talking about aliens, but I am referring to everything, including cows. Everything from farm and manufacturing equipment to refrigerators and coffee makers, to children’s toys, to diapers and slippers (you heard me right), nearly everything can and perhaps will be “connected”. According to this WSJ article, “Ivan Seidenberg, chief executive of Verizon Communications Inc., has said there could be 60 billion connected devices by the end of the decade, up from four billion today. Ericsson Chief Executive Hans Vestberg in April guessed 50 billion.”
So it’s not just us causing this data deluge…blame it on the cows, coffee makers, diapers, slippers, and the billions of other players that make up this “internet of things”.
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Hi, i agree what u said that at the end of perhaps a 20 years all the things shall b connected..But see one thing, connected could mean in different ways like wired connected and unwired. So according to your blog, let me ask u a question. Do you thing we ever can load data to my harddrive or access data from my harddrive from a distant system..
Let me give u an example, m having a Harddrive. Now I’m staying in India and I want to access my harddrive which is place at 30 kms away from where I stay in India. Now the harddrive is not physically connected and theres no one even who could come and connect my harddrive to any such machines so that i can get my data via internet.
I myself was owning a Seagate 512 harddrive which got damaged last month. I understand what u have written in ur blog. But as I’m a well wisher of seagate i want you to produce such a harddrive which would atleast get connected via bluetooth.. even a small visual tool attached to the harddrive would improve its quality and user demand.
Yours Faithfully,
Kaushik Pattanaik,
Computer Science engineering-2012
India.