In today’s tech-driven economy, data is essential for gaining new insights, making decisions, and building products.
In fact, there is so much data out there, that the quantity of it is doubling every two years—and by 2025, there will be 175,000 exabytes of data in existence.
This is an unprecedented figure, and it’s hard to put into perspective. To give you some sense, a single exabyte is equal to 1,000,000,000 GB of data, and five exabytes has been said to be roughly equal to “all of the words ever spoken by mankind”.