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'Digital Universe' To Add 1.8 Zettabyte In 2011

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the less-than-half-of-it-is-porn dept.

1sockchuck writes "More than 1.8 zettabytes of information will be created and stored in 2011, according to the fifth IDC Digital Universe study. A key challenge is managing this data deluge (typified by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, which generates 1 petabyte of data per second)."

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  1. LHC data is _not_ stored in the digital universe by rbrausse · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the experiments may generate the PB per second but most of the data is rejected before it hits any storage system...

  2. Re:LHC data is _not_ stored in the digital univers by Infiniti2000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Indeed, only about 25PB are stored every year from the LHC.