EMC Corporation has announced findings of the IDC Digital Universe Study, sponsored by EMC, 2010, titled "The Digital Universe in India" and its key initiatives to address customer challenges associated with the digital information deluge. The study revealed that, over the next decade, digital information in India will grow from 40,000 petabytes to 2.3 million petabytes, twice as fast as the worldwide rate.
"The digital information explosion will create significant challenges for India's CIOs and IT managers for two reasons," says Manoj Chugh, President, EMC India and SAARC and Director of Global Accounts for EMC Asia Pacific & Japan. "First, enterprises have the responsibility for storage, protection and management of 80 per cent of the Digital Universe's data, and this liability will only increase as social networking and Web 2.0 technologies continue to impact the enterprise.
The highlights of the Study indicate that a good portion of this information will either reside in the cloud or pass through it. More than 464,000 separate towers of iPads (16GB) stacked flat on top of each other, each as high as India's famed Qutub Minar and that more than 600 million metres of iPads laid end-to-end, almost 10 times the length of the entire Indian railways network. It further revealed that 50 per cent more digital information is created today in India than the capacity that exists to store it and this number will continue to grow to 80 per cent over the next decade.
