In two days of time we generate more than Five billion Gigabytes of data, it includes our online activities recorded i.e. our logins, sites accessed or data uploaded, emails & messages or any other activities undertaken.

This volume has grown exponentially over the last few decades! IT organizations have to effectively manage more infrastructure resources, including servers, networks, and storage with adequate performance and capacity and securing data for access when needed.

While storage capacity is becoming cheap, as the data footprint expands, more storage capacity and storage management including software tools and IT staff time are required to manage and protect your business information.

Data footprint is the total storage capacity needed to support your various business applications and information needs. Your data footprint may, in fact, much-much bigger than how much actual storage you have.

We have had improvement to store more data and better access for better connectivity, but the speed of data growth has overwhelmed the benefits of these technological advancements however the fundamental technology on which we store data is altogether same.

Are you aware of the fact that we as consumers are creating the data and the companies are looking for innovative ways to turn that data into information and potentially revenue streams. Have a look with the help of this infographic.

Via: Wikibon infographics