By 2020, there will be 5,200 GB of data for each person

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	By 2020, there will be 5,200 GB of data for every person on Earth During the next eight years, the amount of digital data produced will exceed 40 zettabytes -- the equivalent of 5,200 GB of data for every man, woman and child on Earth, according to an updated Digital Universe study released today. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Set up and run SQL Server on the Amazon Web Services Cloud Amazon Web Services RDS for Microsoft SQL Server® makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the cloud. With Amazon RDS, you can deploy multiple editions of SQL Server (2008 R2 and 2012) including Express, Web, Standard and Enterprise, in minutes with cost-efficient and re-sizable compute capacity. Get started for free. Get Started for Free with Amazon RDS for SQL Server! Reduce the complexity and cost of provisioning and managing your SQL Server databases, and focus on your application development, with Amazon RDS for SQL Server. In this Issue Visual tour: Is a picture worth a thousand gigabytes? NASA to extend Mars exploration with another robotic rover 128TB tape cartridges key to kilometer-size telescope Nicholas D. Evans: The world's most innovative companies: Ranking the best of the best innovators External disk storage shipments surpass 7 exabytes in Q3 Visual tour: Is a picture worth a thousand gigabytes? An ambitious and attractive new large-format book, "The Human Face of Big Data," aims to give readers, through photography and short articles, a glimpse of how powerful new data processing capabilities are changing people's lives. Here is a sample. Read More NASA to extend Mars exploration with another robotic rover NASA today announced plans to extend its work on Mars and even send up another robotic rover in 2020. Read More 128TB tape cartridges key to kilometer-size telescope IBM says that by the time a massive radio telescope array taking up a square kilometer of land is completed in 2026, its tape drive technology will be able to support the generation of 1 petabyte of data per day in search of new galaxies and the origins of the universe. Read More Nicholas D. Evans: The world's most innovative companies: Ranking the best of the best innovators Every year, we see a number of publications issue their Top 50 lists of the World's Most Innovative Companies. In recent years, there have been rankings issued by Forbes.com, Fast Company, and MIT Technology Review to name just a few. Looking back across 2012, I wanted to find out which companies ranked "Best of the Best Innovators" across all these Top 50 lists by combining them to gain a broader perspective that leverages the unique evaluation criteria of each individual study. Read More External disk storage shipments surpass 7 exabytes in Q3 IDC today released its Disk Storage Tracker, showing steady growth in external storage systems worldwide for the third quarter. Read More
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