Total Data Created by Any Device to Reach 847ZB/Year by 2021, Up From 218ZB/Year in 2016
Both consumer and business applications are contributing to the growing dominance. For consumers, streaming video, social networking, and Internet search are among the most popular applications. For business users, ERP, collaboration, analytics, and other digital enterprise applications represent leading growth areas.
The increasing need for resources has led to the development of large-scale public data centers called hyperscale data centers. In this year's forecast, it is expected that by 2021 there will be 628 hyperscale data centers globally, compared to 338 in 2016, 1.9-fold growth or near doubling over the forecast period.
By 2021, hyperscale data centers will support:
- 53% of all data center servers (27% in 2016)
- 69% of all data center processing power (41% in 2016)
- 65% of all data stored in data centers (51% in 2016)
- 55% of all data center traffic (39% in 2016)
The volume of all data stored will almost triple by 2021 from 1.8ZB to 7.2ZB.
Most data is stored on client devices, but more moves to the data center over
time.
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