Mind-Boggling Big Data Facts

All available from Google:

• Every 2 days we create as much information as we did from the beginning of time until 2003.

• Over 90% of all the data in the world was created in the past two years.

• It is expected that by 2020, the amount of digital information in existence will have grown from 3.2 zettabytes today to 40 zettabytes.

• Every minute we send 204 million emails, generate 1.8 million Facebook likes, send 178 thousand Tweets, and upload 200,000 to Facebook.

• Google, alone, processes on average over 40 thousand search queries per second, making it over 3.5 billion in a single day.

• Around 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute and it would take you around 15 years to watch every video uploaded by users in 1 day.

• If you burned all of the data created in just one day onto DVDs, you could stack them on top of each other and reach the moon…twice.

• 570 new websites spring into existence every minute of every day.

• 9 million IT jobs will be created in the U.S. by 2015 to carry out big data projects. Each of those will be supported by 3 new jobs created outside of IT- meaning a total of 6 million new jobs, thanks to big data (Webopedia).

• Today’s data centers occupy an area of land, equal in size to almost 6,000 football fields.

• The amount of data transferred over mobile networks increased by 81% to 1.5 exabytes (1.5 billion gigabytes) per month, between 2012 and 2014.

• The value of the Hadoop market is expected to soar from $2 billion, in 2013, to $50 billion, by 2020, according to market research firm, Allied Market Research.

• The number of bits of information stored in the digital universe is thought to have exceeded in the number of stars in the physical universe by 2007.