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Re: Exponential growth in data?

Just wanted to thank everyone for the feedback that they've sent me. A lot of it was private, so I thought I'd summarize and share the results. The original request was posted internally within IBM and publicly on this list. I was asking for help finding referencable material on the growth of data volume out there. There's a few good estimates, doubling every three years appeared to be a reasonable figure from a couple of sources. Here are the links I was sent: 1. Richard Winter has been tracking very large databases (VLDB) stats across industry for years - look at http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193105574 and http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18902161 . His website is http://www.wintercorp.com/index.html. 2. How Much Information? 2003 -- http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/ 3. Survey: Storage Growth Outpaces PC, Server Markets, http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Storage/Survey-Storage-Growth-Outpaces-PC-Server-Markets/ 4. I found this article by Michael Lesk (http://www.lesk.com/mlesk/ksg97/ksg.html) some time ago and it poses the same question. Problem is: it was written 10 years ago. And some comments: Some companies do see a relation across growth in data volumes compared to growth in company revenue. These factors include Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestures; Major events in industry like SOX, Class Action, Vioxx recall etc.; Major events at clients like initiating a Enterprise Data Warehouse project. The impact of such events can be exponential. A company on normal growth path, say 7% growth, sees a similar growth in their data. But when they initiated their enterprise wide SAP efforts, they data volume requirements grew by almost 10 times. Data retention policies also play a role. - Scott --- Scott Ambler <scottwambler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I guess my search skills aren't what they used to > be. > Yesterday I was looking around for some solid > figures > on the exponential growth of data -- you know, every > X > months the amount of data in the world doubles. > Particularly, I was hoping to find numbers around > the > growth of structured data (i.e. customer records) vs > unstructured (i.e. video, audio, ...). > > Do any of you know of a good source for this sort of > info? Thanks in advance. > > - Scott > > Scott W. Ambler > Practice Leader Agile Development, IBM Methods Group > http://www.ibm.com/rational/bios/ambler.html > Agile at Scale: > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/ambler > > Scott W. Ambler Practice Leader Agile Development, IBM Methods Group http://www.ibm.com/rational/bios/ambler.html Agile at Scale: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/ambler Looking for a X-Mas gift? Everybody needs a Flickr Pro Account. http://www.flickr.com/gift/

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Excellent ADO.Net Resource

I have found a resource providing information about database programming, manipulating data with XML, storing and retrieving data using ADO.Net. http://dev-sphere.com/programming/ado-dotnet/ado-dotnet.htm

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I'm hiring

I've been on this list for a while, so I feel empowered to recruit via it. www.ckuru.com/jobs Ckuru LLC does agile systems (not just databases). Feel free to forward. Thanks, Bret Weinraub

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Excellent ADO.Net Resource

I have found a resource providing information about database programming, manipulating data with XML, storing and retrieving data using ADO.Net. http://dev-sphere.com/programming/ado-dotnet/ado-dotnet.htm