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By 2025, Nearly 30 Percent of Data Generated Will Be Real-Time, IDC Says (zdnet.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: As global connectivity grows, allowing more data to be generated and collected, a growing portion of that data will be real-time information, according to IDC. By 2025, nearly 30 percent of the so-called "global datasphere" will be real-time information, IDC says in a new white paper, sponsored by Seagate. By comparison, real-time data represented 15 percent of the datasphere in 2017, according to the report. IDC defines the "global datasphere" as "the quantification of the amount of data created, captured, and replicated across the world." All told, of the 150 billion devices that will be connected across the globe in 2025, most will be creating real-time data, IDC says. The global datasphere is expected to grow from 23 Zettabytes (ZB) in 2017 to 175 ZB by 2025. One zettabyte is equivalent to a trillion gigabytes.

45 comments

  1. Boom! Bazaar! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    And all it takes is one tiny EMP to reduce that to 0 bytes/s, in a second.

  2. Someone is high on the kool-aid again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Yes, go write a few books about how wonderful the future is going to be. Rich, famous, visionary, all that rot.

    Still haven't the faintest what you're on about, except another dotcom-era round of smoking the good stuff.

  3. Re: POW/MIA: You are not forgotten. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This this this. Stay tuned. Up next: browsing the FAQ

  4. Re: POW/MIA: You are not forgotten. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Lame. Browsing the FAQ is the second most lame thing you could possibly do. What are you going to do after that? Adjust your environment vars? Update source code formats? Set your IDE theme? Set permissions? Such a yawn

  5. real time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I thought data is always generated real time.

    Whether it can be processed this way is another story. IT types that never designed an embedded system or worked on something that had to work in sync with something else under different loads probably do not understand that term anyway.

    1. Re: real time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "sponsored by Seagate"

    2. Re: real time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Depends on whether they are doing something simple like mining Facebook or complex, like helping salespeople analyze leads for cold calling

    3. Re: real time by Killall+-9+Bash · · Score: 1

      "Realtime data" means streaming your mouse clicks to a HDD in Microsoft's datacenter.

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  6. It adds up quickly by Lije+Baley · · Score: 1

    In my business, we are transitioning from daily to 15-minute intervals for all of our few million data points. That's like 100 times more data per day. Plus we are collecting 3 to 10 times more measurements at those points. When the upgrade is complete, we'll collect more data in a few months than we have in the past 20 years. And that is not even real time data. Transferring and storing all that data is not cheap, and the uses for it are very vague and hopeful.

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    1. Re: It adds up quickly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Just ask yourself questions - you would be surprised at the answers

    2. Re: It adds up quickly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How much of that data is to answer idle musings of executives?

    3. Re:It adds up quickly by Aighearach · · Score: 1

      If you collected it, it isn't real-time data.

      If nobody collected it, it might be.

      The computer inside an op-amp is operating on real-time data; a network switch is operating on real-time data. The controller inside a mouse or keyboard is operating on real-time data; but the desktop computer it hands that data over to is not.

  7. and 99%+ of that data.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    will be absolutely and totally unnecessary for the main function(s) of the 'devices', and exists and is collected solely to track the devices and their users, and to sell crap and ads (or ads of crap)..

    1. Re:and 99%+ of that data.. by Aighearach · · Score: 1

      What makes you think that isn't the main function of the devices?

  8. In the Year 2025 ... by nukenerd · · Score: 2

    Perhaps by 2025 they will have realsised that this data is not worth what it is cracked up to be. Of course FTTB it is worth it to those at the top of the pyramid sale, but one day it will dawn to those propping it up at the bottom that they are being taken for a ride (just to mix metaphores). When this happens the pyramid will collapse and the smart money will be on the popcorn sales. Just like Dotcom.

    1. Re:In the Year 2025 ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If man is still alive... if woman can survive...

    2. Re:In the Year 2025 ... by MrL0G1C · · Score: 1

      It's nuts already, 28 ZetaBytes is 27 trillion TeraBytes, that's several terabytes per person on the planet including the ones struggling to feed themselves.

      Who is storing a ton of terabytes per person? I find it very difficult to believe there's a valid and strong business case for doing so. So I expect it's mostly governments snooping on people and keeping far more info than necessary, especially G20 countries.

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  9. App idea: Bleedr by fibonacci8 · · Score: 1

    Generates the user's blood type in real time. Also "handy" as an antitheft measure if an unrecognized fingerprint is offered at an unlock screen.

    Gory details left to your imagination to make them even worse.

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    1. Re:App idea: Bleedr by fibonacci8 · · Score: 1

      Company Motto: "You're just holding it wrong."

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    2. Re: App idea: Bleedr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Haha clearly you have no idea what an impact that would have on peoples lives - there are many reasons app developers make stuff beyond the very most important hope for market fit

  10. Re:POW/MIA: You are not forgotten. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Awww wassamatta AC? Did Jamal steal your crush and make you cry? Maybe if you weren't fat, weak, and disgusting, you wouldn't be an INCEL, and Stacy would actually stand still long enough for your to talk to her, has that ever occurred to you?

    He got radicalized because he's too lazy and entitled to actually compete in the real world

    Guess what, AC? You're what they refer to as a useful idiot; do you really think these White Supremacists give a fuck about your quality of life? LOL, no! They only care about you doing their dirty work for them! They'll groom you to be one of those fucktards that drives a truckload of fertilizer bomb into a crowded place and detonate it, or go shoot up a nightclub, or some other fucktarded suicide mission, while they stay nice and safe in their houses, eating pizza, drinking beer, and fucking Stacy. Then when your corpse is splattered all over the place, they'll take credit for the attack, post their bullshit racist rhetoric, and go back to fucking Stacy. Meanwhile you're DEAD. Does this sound like improving your life situation? LOL, no!

    Get a clue, loser. Lose the fat ass, take a shower daily, put on clean clothes and GO OUTSIDE. Get some social skills. Stop thinking racism solves anything. Be someone actually worthwhile instead of expecting everything to be handed to you. Jamal got the girl because he was a worthwhile person. Be Jamal.

  11. All the more reason to fight for your privacy by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 1

    You know attention-whoring types, who post every little thing they do all day every day on Facebook or Twitter? Do you want that to be your life, by default, with no way to stop it? That's what many corporations and governments want: to have eyes and ears on you 24/7/365. Just look at China: that's precisely what they're doing. Do you want that to happen in your country? I don't think you do. Fight to take back your right to a private life. Don't make excuses about why you can't, because you can.

    1. Re: All the more reason to fight for your privacy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Said the AC

    2. Re:All the more reason to fight for your privacy by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 1

      Sadly the masses don't care about their lack of privacy in the modern era. AT ALL.

      Until it has a bigger, lasting effect nothing will change.

      Cases in point:

      * Look at all the data Facebook sold -- if people were smart they would stop freely giving their data over to companies that only care about profiting from selling it. Very few people are willing to give up their social addictions.

      * Windows 10 has become spyware but do you see any mass boycott movement? Nope. Even techies have been brainwashed into making excuses for MS's lack of customer respect.

      * Every week we read about some data breach -- if actually cared we would see less of them, not more.

    3. Re:All the more reason to fight for your privacy by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 1

      Oh okay I'll just stop talking about this because (You) say nobody cares.
      WRONG! You have to keep talking about it so the message spreads.

  12. And, as a corrolary by hey! · · Score: 1

    our ability to understand what's going on will become ever more biased towards snap judgments.

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  13. IDC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Does that mean "I don't care"? IDK.

  14. After 10ms that information is no longer realtime by sdh · · Score: 1

    I don't get the point. What is this 30% in reference to and what's a global data sphere? Isn't a huge percentage of all data now and even in 2010 real-time, but is discarded or never hits the internet?

  15. Re: POW/MIA: You are not forgotten. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why does this spam show up at +1 on the mobile interface? It makes it much harder to filter out this garbage without hiding useful posts.

  16. Re:After 10ms that information is no longer realti by mspohr · · Score: 2

    All data is collected in real time. 100%
    There is no such thing as collecting old, non real-time data.
    I think they just have a new marketing meme.

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  17. Re:After 10ms that information is no longer realti by Aighearach · · Score: 1

    Ever hear about an ice core, or an archaeological dig?

    What about astronomy?

    Or even, a low-pass filter?

  18. Re:After 10ms that information is no longer realti by mspohr · · Score: 2

    Even when you're collecting information about something old, you're collecting it in real time.
    Collect my name now in real time. I'm old but the data collection is in real time.
    Everything is collected in real time. Everything is analyzed and used at some later time (not real time).

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  19. Re:After 10ms that information is no longer realti by Aighearach · · Score: 1

    You're mistaken; the act of collecting the data is not actually the data.

    Sure, if you mix up the verbs and nouns, what I said stops making sense. That will always be true.

  20. Re:After 10ms that information is no longer realti by mspohr · · Score: 1

    Probably best to stop before we go down a wormhole of semantics.

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  21. Re:After 10ms that information is no longer realti by Memnos · · Score: 1

    No don't. It's fun watching it happen, in real time. ;)

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  22. Re: POW/MIA: You are not forgotten. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I tend to filter everything =1 because of the spam. It sucks though, because I miss out on a lot of interesting replies.

    Still, it beats reading stupid shit about criemer and APK a dozen times per story...

  23. Re:POW/MIA: You are not forgotten. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If we assume what you are claiming is true, that him or any other person who dislike immigrants or people of some other people group because they compete for women leading the them living in involuntarily celibacy or getting their job; how does that mean their dislike for those people are wrong?

    If say immigrants really are coming and taking the women away why the fuck would anyone be happy about that? It make perfect sense to dislike that. If they come and compete for and you lose your job then it make perfect sense to dislike them for that too.

    Sure it's not great evidence of your "supremacy" to lose against them but it's a great perfectly understandable reason to dislike them.

    I also don't know whom these white supremacists who are using your casual /. racist/xenophobic would be. Are you suggesting there's some dark secret global powerful white supremacist group who try to use others as their pawns? And what work? Posting swastika ascii onto Slashdot? Yeah that will help their cause ...

    I'm not sure your advice is what make the difference and in the end it's useless advice anyway because this sexual competition has been there forever. Even if he somehow got good enough that would just mean someone else would lose out instead.
    Here in Sweden among teens there was 120+ males on 100 females due to immigration, 20+% of males end up without children already but with a surplus of 20% men you'll have even more men who end up without. Mass-immigration are destroying the very purpose of life. Life has no other meaning than to carry on. That's the only useful purpose it got. If it lose that it dies and it's no longer life. The reason there's so many more males among young people in Sweden is because of immigration. It's just another reason to dislike it all.

  24. Re: POW/MIA: You are not forgotten. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    People like you dismissed the swarthy hordes as a fantasy. Now n1ggers are flowing into europe and you think itâ(TM)s a good thing your wife has real men who can satisfy her. Why would anyone listen to the advice of depraved masochists like you?

  25. But ALL data is generated real-time today!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How else do you do it?

  26. great by sad_ · · Score: 2

    and how much of that massive amount of data is actually useful for the user?
    i imagine most of this data will be spy/trackware.

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  27. Generation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    All data is generated in real time.

  28. Re:After 10ms that information is no longer realti by Aighearach · · Score: 1

    If you don't want to fall down a slippery slope, don't resort to "no lines can be drawn because then if you make any distinction I'll have to run all the way to either infinity or negative infinity!"

    Simply don't run at infinity when you disagree about the location of the line; instead, talk about the actual problem with the line.

    How about this; if you have to hold a logic line at some level to force a latch to keep storing the "current" value, and to get the next value you have to reset the latch, then that is "real-time." And if instead you have shift registers implementing a FIFO, that is a stored value, and not real-time value.

    Stop waving your hands, the adults are talking about data collection, not angels on pinheads.