How much data is created and perceived every day? Where is it saved and stored? Who owns all this data? And can we handle all this amount of big data?

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With each day goes by, digital interactions such as taking photos, sending texts or tweets and uploading videos with tremendous amounts are being perceived worldwide and that is leading to the explosion of data. According to IBM, 2.5 billion gigabytes was generated daily back in 2012. In 2013, it rose up to 4.4 zettabytes, and it is predicted that by 2020, data will increase massively to 44 zettabytes, which is equal to 44 trillion gigabytes. All this data is gathered and collected, by companies in order to understand the behavior of consumers and predict what they need in the future. Not just that, but governments collect data about reports of incidents in police departments. Imagine how much data rapidly grew since 2013!!

Where is all this data stored?

The US National Security Agency has built a huge data center in Bluffdale, Utah, which is capable of storing a yottabyte of data, that is one thousand trillion gigabytes. There are some open sourced platforms that had grown so quickly to be able to save huge data volume such as Hadoop. Large businesses store their data in a cloud-based data that provides data storage or keep their data on site in their own remote data center. For cloud computing, there are streaming applications like Google Drive, DropBox and iCloud.

Sources:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-26383058

http://www.northeastern.edu/levelblog/2016/05/13/how-much-data-produced-every-day/