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More Data Was Transmitted Over the Internet in 2010 Than All Previous Years Combined 

Continueing on the big-data theme, this is supporting evidence of the exponential growth of the amount of data being transacted online. This trend is likely not going away any time soon - thus the technologies that enable us to analyze, store, sort, and search this waterfall of bits will continue to be strong growers. 

infoneer-pulse:

There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.

Now the transfer of data over the Internet is growing faster than ever, said Vice President of Intel’s Architecture Group Kirk Skaugen during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. He also explained how infrastructure is scaling with the increasing transfer of data.

Skaugen said although there are currently 4 billion connected devices around the world, Intel expects that number to increase to 15 billion by 2015 and 50 billion by 2020.

» via Mashable

(via futuramb)

Source: infoneer-pulse