Michael Kleeman Quoted on the Point of Disconnect Between Technology and Customer's Needs
Big Data's Big Traffic: Have we reached the Point of Disconnect?
12/05/2011
Dick Weisinger,
Formtek Blog
IDC/EMC estimate that the total amount of globally stored digital information is somewhere around 1 zetabyte (or one trillion gigabytes) and that stored data is expected to reach 35 zetabytes before 2020. Forrester Reasearch concurs and estimated that the size of data repositories for business applications will grow 50 percent annually for the foreseeable future.
Technologies like those growing up under the moniker of ‘Big Data’ are likely to only further accelerate the trend towards the growth in data. Much of the discussion has been focused on how will we cope with being able to store, organize, analyze and use such massive amounts of data. But one area that isn’t discussed as much is the implications on network traffic resulting from the increased use of large amounts of data.
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Michael Kleeman is a senior fellow at IGCC and involved in several projects involving homeland security and critical infrastructure protection, including "Training and Exercises in California Homeland Security." Kleeman is a technology industry strategist whose particular skill is in bridging technical and business issues. For more than 30 years he has been involved in the technology industry in engineering, planning, management, and advisory roles.
