Have you ever bothered to take care of the information that the data including your pictures, emails & tweets which you continuously keep on uploading on the Internet, Where does it really got stored.
Do you know!
- Majority of our technological memory has been in digital format since early 2000. With 94% of data storage in the format in last couple of years.
- Storage capacity doubles about every three years, so thses 295 exabytes, multiplied by two, means this year the world is expected to house about 600 exabytes.
Hard drives contain most of the world’s data. Fifty-two percent of the world’s data is stored in hard disks. Optical storage devices come second at 28%. The 8 of the 10 biggest data centers in the world are in the United States an remaining two are in are in Europe.
The online backup service Mozy has shared an awesome infographic
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