COVID Has Accelerated Digital Transformation

Digital information has become so entrenched in all aspects of our lives that the recent growth in information production appears unstoppable. With everything going digital and people working in a hybrid environment, each day on the planet we generate over 500 million tweets, 294 billion emails, 4 million gigabytes of Facebook data, 65 billion WhatsApp messages and 720,000 hours of new content added daily on YouTube.

In 2020, the total amount of data created, captured, copied and consumed in the world was an astounding 60 zettabytes!It is predicted to reach a mind-boggling 175ZB by 2025. One zettabyte is 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits.

Most digital information is stored in three types of location. First is the global collection of what are called endpoints, which include all internet of things devices, PCs, smartphones and all other information storage devices. Second is the edge, which includes infrastructure such as cell towers, institutional servers and offices, such as universities, government offices, banks and factories. Third, most of the data is stored in what’s known as the core – traditional data servers and cloud data centres.

There are around 600 hyperscale data centres – ones with over 5,000 servers – in the world. Around 39% of them are in the US, while China, Japan, UK, Germany, Middle East and, Australia account for about 35% of the total.

The largest data servers in the world are China Telecom Data Centre, in Hohhot, China, which occupies 10.7 million square feet and The Citadel in Tahoe Reno, Nevada, which occupies 7.2 million square feet and uses 815 megawatts of power.

To meet the ever-growing demand for digital data storage, around 100 new hyperscale data centres are built every two years. With a 50% annual growth rate, around 150 years from now the number of digital bits would reach an impossible value, exceeding the number of all atoms on Earth. About 110 years from now, the power required to sustain this digital production will exceed the total planetary power consumption today.

TechAccess and Hitachi Vantara are organising a webinar on 1 September 2021 at 11 am UAE Time to address some of these issues. Drive faster and more reliable operations with modern infrastructure resources that are optimized to deliver the right data to your applications. Discover new insights, respond to opportunities faster, and support new use cases, at any scale, from the edge to the cloud.

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