A number-crunching report on the way data centers were in 2011.
It’s a data eat data world out there. And Emerson [2] has thrown out its lasso and rounded up some of the wild data points and synthesized them into some neat little factoids for 2011.
A few fun facts on data in 2011:
- This year, humanity will generate 1.2 trillion GBs of data
- Average data center outage duration is 134 minutes
- There are 509,147 data centers operating worldwide
- Today’s servers have 45x more computing capacity compared to servers in 2001
View the full infographic from Emerson [2] below:
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