By 2013, the amount of traffic flowing over the Internet annually will reach 667 exabytes.
The Economist
By 2012 around 2.43 zettabytes of unstructured data will be constructed – the primary problem will be storing such large amounts.
IDC Reseach
The total worldwide volume of data is growing at 59 percent per year, with the number of files growing at 88 percent per year.
Gartner
We estimate that a retailer using big data to the full has the potential to increase its operating margin by more than 60 percent.
Through 2015, more than 85 percent of Fortune 500 organisations will fail to effectively exploit big data for competitive advantage.
“By 2020 Data will grow 44x to 35 trillion gigabytes”
EMC
70 Percent of Organizations Now Considering, Planning or Running Big Data Projects According to New Global Survey.
Big data will drive $28 billion of worldwide IT spending in 2012. In 2013, big data is forecast to drive $34 billion of IT spending.