Mahagov Cloud
Mahagov Cloud

Rajesh Aggarwal, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Government of Maharashtra MahaGov Cloud is an initiative by Directorate of Information Technology, Government of Maharashtra to provide […]

VMware in India
VMware in India

Balaji Rao, Director – Sales, VMware India & SAARC A leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud […]

Future of Information Storage is ‘Virtual’
Future of Information Storage is ‘Virtual’

[This article was published in the December 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Growth in information is forcing a transformation in the IT sector. The acceleration in the pace of growth in information will only gather momentum, with the next four years expected to see a five-fold increase in information from 486 extabytes to 2502 extabytes, according to the Digital Universe Study done by IDC. Interestingly, 70% of this information explosion is going to be created by the private domain with more photos, videos, social networking and many other applications coming into play and mobile Internet becoming more popular.

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