IT byte Will Be As Much As Sand within 3 Years

In the next three years, the byte amount generated by products, such as digital cameras, cell phones, enterprise IT systems, etc, will be as much as the sand on the beach in the world.

This is an unbelievable estimate made by IDC. This Thursday, Stephen, the Vice president who is responsible for IDC’s global IT market and strategy, says that the estimate reflected the substantial growth of the equipments and systems used by the consumers and enterprises.

Stephen notes that companies will be confronted with the difficulties to choose how to store data, search for information, and adapt with monitoring rules within the following years.

“This is not an easy task.” Stephen says, “85% of the data will come from photographs of consumers, surfing on the Internet, and sending e-mails, about 60% of consumers data will span across the enterprise networks.”

A considerable number of data are non-structural. This means the contents hasn’t been clearly marked, such as photos and videos, this makes it difficult to use them. But the technology that can make rightly and in-depth analysis of these data has emerged to help enterprises find important information and improve their operations.

Stephen comment that if we could successfully analyze their transmission data on networks, the large amounts of data which companies collected would represent a tremendous business opportunity. For example, Wal-Mart generates 1TB transaction data every day. He adds, companies still have a long way to go to analyze the non-structural data of networks. These data comes from photo-sharing site, such as Flickr, Skype, even Second.

The information of American Computer Emergency Response Team indicates that the number of software defects declined in 2003 and 2004, but it rebounded in 2005 and 2006, and even made the highest record in the history. Stephens says the explosive growth of the number of applications and equipment has caused the explosive growth of the number of security faults.

Stephen states that the security and stability of IT systems are very important, and the IT department of a company has a direct impact to the company’s performance. When it appears a security fault, the customer’s impression and the company's performance both will be affected. In the past five or six years, security keeps the highest priority in budget.

IDC also predicts that comparing to the last year, the sales revenue of security software and bug management software will rise 20% about $2.27 billion. This significantly exceeds 6% or 7% of the average growth rate in software industry.