Global data storage capacity estimated at 295 exabytes | InfoTech Spotlight

According to Ashok Bindra a TMCnet contributor 2011, “With advances in technology driving the Internet traffic worldwide, the quest for data is only growing dramatically day-by-day. It is hard to fathom the amount of data generated and stored globally. But now researchers at the University of Southern California have given us some idea. Tracking some 60 analog and digital technologies from 1986 to 2007, the researchers have estimated that the humankind has stored some 295 Exabytes by 2007.” Read more > http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/144041-global-data-storage-capacity-estimated-295-exabytes.htm #exabytes #infotechspotlight #ashokbindra #tech #computing