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Building a Cloud Ark for the Coming Data Flood

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Zenoss Blog; By Brian Proffitt
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If you ever have had doubts about the accuracy of all of those predictions about the future of computing being up in the clouds, consider this: according to a new report from IDC, in 2010 the amount of all the digital information produced on Earth will grow to 1.2 zettabytes, a convenient unit of data measurement that equals a staggering 1.2 trillion gigabytes of information. The same report estimates that in 2009, nearly 35 percent of the digital information created could not be stored, because there simply was not enough storage media available on the planet. If that figure were applied to the estimated amount of 2010 data, that means that 420 billion gigabytes of data will never get permanently stored.

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Comments (6)

hit the delete key

And you know the best part?

It's the size of the ark.

Nah, what do you think, how large is the ark going to be, holding all data on the planet during the flood?

I'd say:

4 bits. One male and one female 0, and one male and one female 1.

After the flood, just start over. Obviously, bytes reproduce faster than rabbits (which begs the question: How many rab bits are in a byte?).
Oh hans. ow. ow squared. No, cubed. No, tetrahedroned.

(I will never admit I laughed.)
*now where did I put that brick?*
Let's see, do I have enough money to buy an airline ticket to Europe?

No. Or, rather, not yet...

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