The Ever Increasing Knowledge And The Attendant Risks: Safeguarding Your Data
Knowledge is indeed increasing exponentially; statistics verify it. It is estimated that a week’s worth of reading the New York Times contains more information than a person would likely have come across in a lifetime in the eighteenth century. We live in the information age. According to the Geneva Association, at the end of 2009 the global data volume reached 800 exabytes. If that weren’t enough, in 2009 a company in Japan “successfully tested a fiber-optic cable” that pushed “14 trillion bits per second down a single strand of fiber. That’s 2,660 CDs or 210 million phone calls per second” (Daniel Kinnaman, District Administration, January 2009). This rate is currently tripling every six months and is expected to do so for the next 20 years. Such volume of data is highly valuable to medium scale businesses to large enterprises, to increase productivity and profitability through real time forecasting and monitoring of business as well as the market, promptly mitigati...