An IDC Infographic

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS

STORAGE
Byte Density Across the Globe

THE GROWING
IMPORTANCE OF DATA
Compare digital universe with WW installed
raw capacity with WW capacity shipped

18M
16M

IDC forecasts the

digital universe to be

16ZB
IN 2017*

Byte = 1x10^0
KB = 1x10^3
MB = 1x10^6
GB = 1x10^9
TB = 1x10^12
PB = 1x10^15
EB = 1x10^18
ZB = 1x10^21

14M
12M

(PB) 10M
8M
6M
4M
2M
0

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Digital Universe

WW Installed Raw Capacity

WW Capacity Shipped

*Source: http://www.emc.com/leadership/digital-universe/index.htm

INSTALLED BYTES BY
MEDIA TYPE WORLDWIDE
100
80
60

HDD
Tape

40

Optical

20

Flash
DRAM

2000

2005

Tape

Optical

2017

HDD

Tape has always been

and continues to be a
storage technology used
for long term storage
(archive) and
disaster recovery

Optical media ruled the day

in 2000 as preferred content
distribution medium broadband and streaming
evolution decimates
optical media usage

2012

Flash

Hard disk drive

share of installed
bytes swells to
66% in 2017

Flash adoption in
billions of mobile devices,
PCs, and the enterprise
makes its share of
WW bytes noticeable

INSTALLED BYTES
BY REGION

2000

2017

40%
27%

67%

24%
20%

44%

33%

38%
10%
8%

56%

North America
Western Europe
Asia Pacific

24%
5%
4%

CEMA
Latin America

RESURGENCE OF
ENTERPRISE DOMINANCE
From a 120 Byte Punch Card to
a 6 Terabyte hard drive. The
worlds most important data
sits in enterprise storage.

1st Platform

2nd Platform

3rd Platform

Nearly all digital

data in data
centers on
enterprise
hardware

PCs take world

by storm and
capture large
share of installed
capacity

The proliferation
of mobile devices,
cloud, and social turns
tide of shrinking
enterprise share of
WW installed bytes
resurgence begins

INSTALLED BYTES
BY USAGE
But where do the most important bytes reside? Enterprise!
100
80

Enterprise

60

PCs
Mobile Devices
Entertainment/Other

40
20
0

2000

2005

Whoever rules the waves, rules

the world (Alfred T. Mahan)

2012

Might it now be true that

Whoever owns the data...

Share of Installed
Enterprise Bytes

2000
8% 1%

2017

2012
7% 1%

North America

22%

20%

Western Europe

33%

31%

Asia Pacific
CEMA

36%

40%

Latin America

TOP 10 COUNTRIES
Installed Raw Capacity
(All Media Types)
Rank

2000

2005

2012

USA

USA

USA

Japan

PRC

PRC

Germany

Japan

Germany

PRC

Germany

Japan

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

France

France

Brazil

Korea

Italy

France

Italy

Brazil

India

Canada

Korea

Russia

10

Australia

Canada

Korea

Country ranking with respect to its

total installed raw capacity

369GB

Globally

PER CAPITA
*
Top/bottom 5 For 2012
*out of 48 countries analyzed

Top 5

2,331GB 2,095GB 2,031GB

Switzerland

Denmark

Norway

2,024GB 1,977GB

Hong Kong

USA

Bottom 5
245GB
Turkey

156GB
Vietnam

134GB

Philippines

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120GB

Indonesia

64GB
India

For more information read the report,

"Where in the World is Storage:
A Look at Byte Density Across the Globe"
IDC Document #243338