January 08, 2021
College of Graduate and Continuing Studies webinar, Army ROTC information session usher in spring semester’s first week
Market watchers might say data’s future starts with z, as in zettabyte. That mind-bendingly huge amount of data portends a blindingly bright future for data managers.
The College of Graduate and Continuing Studies will explore that future in a webinar Tuesday.
Framingham, Massachusetts, market research giant International Data Corp. has forecast that the global datasphere — all data created, captured or replicated — will reach 175 zettabytes by 2025.
All that capacity includes data from private and public information technology and utility infrastructures, private and public cloud data centers and personal computing devices — desktop and laptop computers, tablets and smartphones — and “internet-of things” devices. IDC forecast the capacity, a jump from an estimated 23 zettabytes in 2017, would help bring autonomous vehicles, robots and other devices on line.