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EMC
Corporation
has announced the findings of IDC Digital Universe Study,
sponsored by EMC, 20101, titled 'The Digital Universe in India' and
its key initiatives to address customer challenges associated with
the digital information deluge. The study revealed that over the next
decade (2010 to 2020), digital information in India will grow from
40,000 petabytes to 2.3 million petabytes, twice as fast as the
worldwide rate. To
help address customers' increasing challenges to store, protect and
manage ever growing digital information, EMC is rolling out its
private cloud strategy in India. It is also forging industry
partnerships locally and globally to help customers move quickly
toward private cloud computing environments and acquire new levels of
agility, efficiency and control; expanding global services operations
to address large enterprise requirements; and broadening its product
portfolio to cover the entire spectrum of enterprise, SMB, SOHO and
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size="3">Highlights
of the Study: align="LEFT">
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India's share of digital information is expected to grow
60-fold by 2020, driven by the roll-out of 3G/BWA networks,
digitization of television networks, and increased technology
adoption among individuals, SMBs, enterprises and in government
services like the Unique ID project, Census, among others.
·
India's 2010 tally for digital information equals
information stored in 2.5 billion iPads (16GB).
·
More than 4,64,000 separate towers of iPads (16GB) stacked
flat on top of each other, each as high as India's famed Qutub Minar.
·
More than 600 million meters of iPads laid end-to-end, almost
10 times the length of the entire Indian railways network.
·
If the 2.5 billion iPads were laid end-to-end, they would be
equal to a continuous line of more than 197 million Tata Nano cars.
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50 percent more digital information is created today in India
than the capacity that exists to store it. This number will grow to
80 percent over the next decade.
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size="3">The
digital information explosion will create significant challenges for
India's CIOs and IT managers for two reasons,” said Manoj Chugh,
President-India and SAARC, EMC and Director-Global Accounts, EMC,
Asia Pacific and Japan. “First, enterprises have responsibility for
the storage, protection and management of 80 percent of the Digital
Universe's data, and this liability will only increase as social
networking and Web 2.0 technologies continue to impact the
enterprise,” he added.
style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> “
face="Times New Roman, serif">Second,
while digital information will grow 60-fold, enterprise investments
in IT and staffing will grow only in single digits. The cumulative
effect is driving CIOs to transform traditional infrastructures into
private cloud datacenters that offer internal and external customers
IT as a service,” added Chugh.
face="Times New Roman, serif"> He
further explained, “The digital information deluge will translate
into a significant market opportunity in India over the next decade.
This is why EMC continues to invest in scaling its operations as a
part of its previously announced USD2 billion investment commitment
through 2014.”
“We
are driving technology innovation, forging industry defining
partnerships globally and locally, and redefining service standards
to support our customers in India. Today, EMC is well positioned to
address these customer challenges and help them to achieve faster and
higher returns on their IT investments,” said Chugh.