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Some IT facts to ponder on
by Ian Begg Marketer, Engineer Some interesting facts from my Network engineering persona - enjoy!200 hours of video was uploaded every minute since the Japanese earthquake (mostly of the disaster and its aftermath).
By the year 2013, 80 - 90% of all internet (IP) network traffic will be video traffic.
Video will quadruple IP traffic by 2014 (to 767 *Exabytes per year). See *below
By the end of 2011 the will be 3.6 billion mobile network devices on the internet.
7 Billion new wireless devices will be ADDED by 2015. That is more than what the population of the world will be by then. That means more than wireless device one per living person (of all ages).
300,000 Android devices are added to the internet per day.
Android is the 2nd biggest mobile platform in the world (2 years earlier than expected), it is the largest platform in the USA. In 2 years time, will be the biggest mobile platform in the world.
By the year 2020 storage requirements will increase 44 fold. (NB, not 44%)
The iPad and the Apple Mac = 12% of the world?s wireless population.
Corporate Instant Messaging (IM) will be the next big thing ? Yahoo, Gmail, Mixit, Twitter, Facebook, You tube, E-Blogger, Linked-in Cisco Jabber and other social media.
Warning to Businesses:
IGNORE SOCIAL MEDIA AT YOUR OWN PERIL.
IGNORE SOCIAL MEDIA AT YOUR OWN PERIL.
Facebook offers over 500,000 applications.
Borderless networks means business will have to give access to ? ANYONE, ANYTIME, on ANYTHING (device type) and from ANYWHERE. This is for staff and customer communication.
55% of all electrical power in the IT sphere is used outside the Data Centre, in branches and areas of presence (PCs, switches, printers, mobiles and other devices)
The use of Unified messaging (such as Cisco Jabber) will dominate communication (Voice / video) over the internet instead of expensive Cellphone airtime. You will be able to switch seamlessly between your desk phone (IP), your mobile, your laptop or your iPad, even during a call (for instance, when you have to leave the office, get into your car to drive somewhere).
Cisco saved 90 million US dollars in one year by banning staff business travel and they had to use video conferencing instead.
Cisco?s last sales conference (CSX) was ?attended? by 23 000 sales staff via video conferencing from all over the world.
*Just to be clear:
There are three definitions of megabyte (MB), two of which are commonly used in computing:
1000 ? 1000 = 1,000,000 bytes in a megabyte - Most commonly used. This is the standard SI definition, used for most media measurements (like hard drives and DVDs), for networking, and in some software (like Mac OS X and Linux).
1024 ? 1024 = 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte - This is the definition commonly used by memory manufacturers and in some software (like Microsoft Windows). The official term for this unit is "mebibyte" (MiB).
1024 ? 1000 = 1,024,000 bytes in a megabyte - This definition was used in the once-common "1.44 MB" floppy disk
1 000 bytes = 1 Kilobyte (103) abbr KB
1 000 000 bytes = 1 Megabyte (106) abbr MB
1 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Gigabyte (109) abbr GB
1 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Terabyte (1012) abbr TB
1 000 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Petabyte (1015) abbr PB
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Exabyte (1018) abbr EB
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Zettabyte (1021) abbr ZB
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Yottabyte (1024) abbr YB
From here on it is the proposed (but not official as far as I know) system. However, Yotta is the second last Greek alphabet letter - the last letter would be the Omega.
It could be that the next one would be the Omegabyte. After they run out of options with the Greek alphabet, they could go to something else, like Egyptian or some other ancient alphabet.
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Xonabyte (1027) abbr XB
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Wekabyte (1030) abbr WB
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Vundabyte (1033) abbr VB
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Udabyte (1036) abbr UB
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Tredabyte (1039) abbr TDB
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Sortabyte (1042) abbr SB
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Rintabyte (1045) abbr RB
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Quexabyte (1048) abbr QB
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Peptabyte (1051) abbr PPB
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Ochabyte (1054) abbr OB
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Nenabyte (1057) abbr NB
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Mingabyte (1060) abbr MIB
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes = 1 Lumabyte (1063) abbr LB
Will we ever get there?
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