Today’s world revolves around data. The exponential expansion of internet adoption and rapid technological developments in device connectivity are pushing the flow of data at an exponential rate, forcing organizations to find new methods to translate the data inflow into business insights that help them make better and more intelligent decisions.
Data has grown in popularity and acceptance over time since it allows companies of all sizes to explore new markets, control expenses, improve operational efficiency, and gain a competitive advantage.
Whether you consider yourself a technophobe or an IT professional, these amazing statistics about the data we generate on a daily basis will astound you.
Since the first tweet, Twitter has been raking up incredible numbers. There is a library of Twitter statistics, facts, and data available on the internet. According to reports, about 6,000 tweets are sent per second on Twitter, equating to over 350,000 tweets every minute, 500 million tweets per day, and around 200 billion tweets per year.
Humans have progressed technologically faster in the last 150 years than they have in the previous 2,000 years. The invention of digital electronics is often regarded as one of the most significant developments in human history. The rapid rise in information output feels unstoppable since digital information has become so embedded in many facets of our lives and society. We send 294 billion emails and 65 billion WhatsApp messages every day on Earth, and that’s only the top of the data iceberg.
YouTube’s simplicity is one of the numerous reasons for its meteoric rise in popularity over the years. YouTube makes it incredibly simple for content providers to reach a wide audience with their work. As a result, there is a diverse choice of content from which to select. Every day, over 720000 hours of fresh YouTube content are created, according to statistics. As consumers’ appetites for internet video have risen, the amount of content available on YouTube has exploded.
Kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, and even terabytes are all terms you’ve probably heard of. A Zettabyte is roughly equal to a thousand Exabytes, a billion Terabytes, or a trillion Gigabytes if we’re counting. Add to the fact that the zettabyte age has officially begun, and the total amount of data we produce, capture, copy, and consume in a year is 59 zettabytes, with the amount of data we create, capture, copy, and consume in a year potentially tripling by 2025. For amusement, if each byte were a £1 coin, a 1 zettabyte stack would stretch for 1,980 light-years, which would take you almost 450 times to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri
A cloud data service is essentially a remote version of a data center – hosted somewhere other than your company’s physical premises – that allows you to access your data via the internet. When it comes to storing and accessing large volumes of data, the majority of businesses rely on data servers and cloud data centers.
Around 600 hyperscale data centers (those with more than 5,000 servers) exist around the world. Around 39% of them are in the United States, with China, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia accounting for roughly 30% of the total.
The China Telecom Data Centre has the title of world’s largest data center, spanning 10.7 million square feet and housing “a cloud computing data center, call centers, warehouse, offices, and staff residential quarters. It is also the world’s most expensive data center; the facility is said to have cost more than $3 billion to build and is twice the size of Vatican City.
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